Welcome to Word Wars for WUC October 2026! ✩ What are word wars? Word wars are a lot like writing sprints! You compete against another person to see who can write the most words in a set amount of time. — ✩ How to do a word war Just fill out this form: || Your cabin || Your WPM (you can use www.typingtest.com to find this) || How long you want the word war to last (most word wars are 2-5 minutes, but you can make them as long or short as you’d like) || Whether you’d prefer to use a prompt or not (see below) || Whether you’d prefer to show proof of your writing or not After you’ve commented this, you can go through existing comments and find someone with compatible preferences and a similar wpm - if you can't find anyone, just wait for someone to reply to yours. After you and the person you're warring both agree on a duration (and a prompt if you choose to use one), you each write on your own and report back with how many words you wrote. Whoever wrote more words can comment in the main cabin that they won a word war to claim their points. If you wrote with a prompt, make sure to mention that as well for extra points! — ✩ Points The winner of a word war earns 100 points for their cabin! Regardless of if you’ve won or not, you can earn an additional 25 points if you use a prompt in a war. Keep in mind that both of these points can only be claimed once per day (UTC time). — ✩ Prompts Prompts that you and the person you’re warring would both use for your writing, of you'd like! Here is a list of prompts, along with the people who suggested them: “my birthday cake! it’s…” ~ @chocolate_camps “yep, that was me, I stole your onions” ~ @catmeowlove7 “I opened my fridge and- why is there a time machine here?” ~ @juliathecaesar “What do you mean you have no idea what you're doing? You were supposed to be the leader!” ~ @snowdropsugar — ✩ Who can I war? You can war anyone you’d like who's participating in WUC, including your allies and people from your own cabin. however, you can only receive points by warring people from other cabins. — ✩ What can I write? Any literary writing counts! It can be as bland as ‘Snowy sat on an owl. His name was Squawkatoo.’ However, you can’t just write something like ‘a a a a a a’. As a rule of thumb, only things that would normally count towards your overall word goal can count for word wars. After you win, comment that you’ve won in the main cabin! Leaders won’t be checking the comments of this project. Make sure to include if you’ve used a prompt, to claim the additional points. Linking to the comment chain of your war to show proof is optional. You can only win one war per day (UTC time) - after this, you must wait until the next day to earn more points, although you can continue doing wars regardless. ✩ Credits -thanks to the old leaders for creating the prompts -hosties for hosting this session ( , , , ) -swc, alana, polar bears for inspiring this description -thumbnail by cat
