How to Sign Up:
2. Visit the WeSeWriMo registration thread and add your name to the list. (Registration closed until 2012!)
Good Stuff:
2. Visit the WeSeWriMo registration thread and add your name to the list. (Registration closed until 2012!)
Anyone who produces a webseries or serialized online fiction of any format.How can people sign up?
Is there any benefit to joining? Why can't I just write on my own?Joining is easy!
1. If you're not already a community member, sign up for a free EpiGuide account.
2. Once the registration thread is open, you'll simply need to add your series/site/project to the official WeSeWriMo 2012 thread by August 1, 2012.
Once we process your info we'll add you to the official list and you'll get some free goodies, such as a blog, a banner, access to the WeSeWriMo '09 forum where you can meet the other participants, and other extras.
Of course you can take part in the challenge privately. However, if you do sign up, we offer some fun community tools and features for you to enhance the experience.Such as?
First, you'll get access to your very own Eppy-hosted Blog, where you can post about your plans for meeting the challenge and update us on your process once the month begins. You'll also be able to use our WeSeWriMo widget, a block where you can keep track of your goal.What do I get if I succeed?
Also, all participants can discuss strategies or encourage one another within our devoted forum for WeSeWriMo.
And if you create your user profile, you get your own cool WeSeWriMo banner to show off your participation in this new challenge.
The satisfaction of a job well done isn't enough? Actually all who complete their goals successfully will get a little banner award.How do you know if I succeed? Couldn't I just say I reached my goal and fool everyone completely?
Well ... you could, sure. But what's the point of that? Further, the only way anyone's gonna get a verified place on the WeSeWriMo Hall of Fame is by submitting your stuff to us. Not for publication, just for our administrator to count and verify. While this isn't mandatory, it's the only feasible way we can keep track of this stuff.What's the point? Why don't people just participate in NaNoWriMo or ScriptFrenzy?
NaNoWriMo is all about writing a novel (really, a novella); and ScriptFrenzy a script for TV, film or theater. There are dozens of formats and methods for creating a regularly produced entertainment series for a web-only audience. The EpiGuide is all about this fast-growing genre, and we want to encourage, challenge and inspire the community of producers. Unlike NaNoWriMo's single goal of a 50,000 novella, the WeSeWriMo offers creators the ability to set their own ambitious goals: a certain number of episodes/installments, monthly or daily word counts ... it's all up to the individual.I heard the EpiGuide just focuses on text-based serials / online soap operas, right? What if my series is different?
To answer the first question: no, the EpiGuide community/directory covers webseries of every genre. Everyone is encouraged to discuss, promote or submit any type of series. So if your webseries is a gritty realistic podcast about vampire astronauts solving medical mysteries in the Wild West, welcome aboard! The more the merrier.I thouguht 'webseries' referred only to video series. I write a serialized novel. Is this for me?
Yes! Text-based serials have been called 'webseries' for nearly a decade, long before video series were popular. Now the term does usually refer to video series, but WeSeWriMo encompasses both formats -- along with audio podcasts, animation, and any other format that's serialized on the web and written. (So improvised material, or one-off works, aren't really suitable for the WeSeWriMo project.)
What about Virtial Series? My serial uses a screenplay format. Can I participate?
Can I tell others about this event?Certainly. We don't really use the term "Virtual Series" here, because in the EpiGuide community's view, original serials produced for the web are very real series, and calling them "virtual" seems to de-legitimize this form of entertainment. (Although the term "virtual season" does make sense for those fanfiction series producing unofficial extra seasons or spinoffs of a television show.)
However, it's really just semantics. Whatever a serial writer or crew member calls his/her production -- webserial, weblit, websoap, Virtual Series, webseries, podcast, webfiction, webisode, internet TV, cyberserial -- everyone's welcome!
I have more questions you didn't anticipate. Ha!Absolutely! Please spread the word about WeSeWriMo so our participation can keep growing! If you have a blog, or are a member of any writing communities/groups, we'd love it if you'd consider posting about WeSeWriMo where appropriate (but only where appropriate! Please don't spam!).
If you're on Twitter, chat it up often and use the hashtag #WeSeWriMo (along with other useful tags such as #weblit, #webseries, #amwriting and #writegoal).
When posting, link to http://bit.ly/webserial or just http://wesewrimo.org. Or if you want to link directly to the sign-up thread, use http://bit.ly/wese2011. Thanks!
We also have banners/images for linking purposes! Use one of the below banners, or if you're a participant, visit our web badges pages for a wider variety of images.
Feel free to send any comments or questions to editor@epiguide.com ... or post 'em on the WeSeWriMo forum.Now start getting those typing fingers into shape! And good luck to all participants.
