Word War Day One and a giveaway!

Hey, writers! This week on the blog, we're hosting a word war!

What's a word war? 

It's when two or more writers pick a set amount of time, and compete to see who can write the most. Some word wars get pretty competitive, but ours is a more laid back event. This word war starts today and ends Friday.

How does it work? 

You write whenever you're able. You can write every day this week, one of the days, an hour of the day, whatever.

If you want, you can interact with each other in the comments section of this post, You can pop in to tell us how much you've written, to encourage each other, or even to arrange mini-word wars throughout the days.

You can also connect using the twitter hashtag #wordwar or on the Go Teen Writers Community Facebook group. (If you're not a member of this group, you'll need to email the moderators to be added: GoTeenWritersCommunity(at)gmail.com.)

Why are you doing this?

Because we don't want to become the kind of writers who spend more time talking about writing than we do actually writing.

Because we value butt-in-the-chair time, and this is good motivation for many of us. 

And because it's fun!

Also, I have a box full of beautiful ARCs (advanced reader copies) of The Lost Girl of Astor Street, which releases from Blink in February. I'm giving away one today and one tomorrow! This giveaway is only open to U.S. residents. You can learn more about the book on my website, and get entered to win below.

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