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Sprint Writers Competition

by Brandiwyn🎶 v.2026

Rated: 13+ · Message Forum · Contest · #1901996

Compete with your fellow authors and write more words, faster! Proven writer's block cure.

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Sprint Writers Competition

2026 Signups Open Oct. 1st!
{--i}}Sign-ups close after Nov. 6. Signed-up authors who have not sprinted by Nov. 7 will be eliminated.

Announcements:

Sprinting starts with the 2:00am Official Sprint on Nov. 1.

Any new writing is fine. It doesn't have to be a novel.

If your name is not on the form's "Author" list at the time of sprinting, post your word count in the forum until it can manually be added by a scorekeeper. Please be patient. Adding you to the Author list is a manual process.

Any WDC authors are invited to use the forum year-round for off-season sprinting.

How to Join a Sprint
In the subject line of a new message, announce your intent to join an upcoming "official" or "mini" sprint with the word "JOIN" and the scheduled sprint time.
- All times are according to WdC Time

- Please use {c:#CC6600}military/international time (24-hour clock). ▶︎
(example: "JOIN 10:00" or "JOIN 14:15 MINI")

How to Sprint

Set up your writing space.
- You may write in any application you choose.
- If adding to a novel or other longer work, clearly delineate the current sprint.

Set a timer and make sure the volume is adequate.
- {c:#009900}To use the Google timer: ▶︎
- {c:#009900}To use the Android (Samsung) or iPhone/iPad timer: ▶︎

Write your words. (They must be your words, so no AI!)
- The following methods* of composing are permitted:
- typing
- glide typing (formerly "Swype")
- handwriting / convert to text
- dictation
- When the timer alarm goes off, stop writing.

*Some of these methods are significantly faster than others, and therefore will give a competitive sprinting advantage. We recommend you learn to use the faster methods

Ask for help in the forum!
if you're in it to win it. If you just need us for the motivation, by all means, go at your own pace.

How to Get Credit

Copy/paste your words into https://wordcounter.net.

(privacy policy)

Report your word count on the Sprint Writers Entry Form.

Review your results on the Sprint Writers Scoresheet

--- The tabs across the bottom offer more detailed data.

Official Sprints

30 minutes long

Proceed regardless of participation (solo participants win by default)

Scheduled daily as follows (WDC times):

02:00 (2:00 am)

06:00 (6:00 am)

10:00 (10:00 am)

14:00 (2:00 pm)

18:00 (6:00 pm)

22:00 (10:00 pm)

Mini-Sprints

Impromptu 15-minute sprints

Group members may propose in the forum at any time on the quarter-hour (:00, :15, :30, :45)

At least two Sprinters are required for Score Points to be awarded

However, if you log words for a solo ("invalid") mini-sprint, those logged words do contribute to your word count total.

How to Accumulate Score Points
Points awarded as follows:

5 pts for participating in an Official Writing Sprint

3 add'l pts to the 1st place winner of the Official Sprint (total 8 pts)

2 add'l pts to the 2nd place winner of the Official Sprint (total 7 pts)

1 add'l pt to the 3rd place winner of the Official Sprint (total 6 pts)

2 pts for participating in a valid Mini-Sprint (min. 2 sprinters)

1 add'l pt to the first place winner of the Mini-Sprint (total 3 pts)

Scorekeepers

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Brandiwyn🎶 v.2026

Elimination

All Sprinters start the month with a 5-day grace period.

After the grace period, Sprinters must maintain a cumulative score of 4 points per day or risk elimination. For example:
On 11/6 you must have 4 points.
On 11/7 you must have 8 points.
On 11/8 you must have 12 points.
...etc.

Sprinters who fall below the required daily cumulative score are eliminated (you will be removed from the scoresheet.)

Keep track of your cumulative points on the Sprint Writers Scoresheet.

Note: One Official Sprint per day starting on Nov. 6 will keep you comfortably in the running, even if you don't place (5 points for participating).

Prizes
The top-scoring Sprinters at the end of November earn prizes of some kind or another. Yes, we realize that's vague. We're trying to write our novels, here, people. Shut up and sprint, already, and for goodness sake, don't get eliminated. That would be A Very Bad Thing. (But in case you're desperate to know, the prizes have generally been portfolio "Fingers-on-Fire" Awardicons.)

PREVIOUS WINNERS: ▶︎