Hello!! Welcome to the word wars project for the July 2023 session of SFWC! Please read the *entire* description, as some things have changed since the previous session. - - - ✲ What Are Word Wars? Word wars are a lot like word sprints - but you're competing against someone else to see who can write the most words. The winner earns 100 points for their cabin! Also, word wars do count towards your word count goal :D - - - ✲ How To Do A Word War Comment on this project with your cabin, words per minute or WPM (you can find out your WPM at www.typingtest.com, please choose the "medium" option), how long you want to race for, and if you want to use a prompt. Someone with a similar WPM from a different cabin will reply. Once you've agreed on a time and (optionally) a prompt, you both write on your own and then report back how many words you wrote. Whoever wrote more comments in the main cabin that they won a word war. - - - ✲ Prompts If you want to, you can choose a prompt that you and the person you're warring with can both base your writing on. You can also decide beforehand whether or not you're going to share proof for your writing. You can come up with your own prompts, but here is a list of prompts if you need some ideas: "I knew I shouldn't have left the macaroni in the fridge." "'Fly, piggies, fly!' shrieked the 2-year-old." "'Cronchy.' said Elizabeth, biting into her snack. 'Cronchy.'" "A hog was devouring my couch." "I was hungry. Very, very hungry." - - - ✲ Rules - All writing must be literary. It can be as bland as "The cat sat on the mat," but you can't just write "a a a a" over and over. - Only write things that you would count towards your word count if it wasn't for a word war. - You can war nearly anyone for points! The only people you can't war for points are people in your cabin. - You can only win two word wars per day. Once you've won two, you have to wait until the next day in your time zone. - It's your responsibility to comment in the main cabin and your own cabin if you win a word war – leaders won't be checking the comments here :) - - - ✲ Credits - Thank you to @sophcamps for the thumbnail and for hosting this session of SFWC! - Thank you to @phenomenae for most of the description, as well as Scratch Writing Camp for this amazing idea!
