Day 1

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Here's today's prompt for you to post your updates and any excerpts and thoughts etc in comments.

I also thought I'd provide a link to a simple word counter, the Picometer at Writertopia.com. To make it easy, just copy the following HTML, changing 1340 to the number of words you've written, and 5000 to whatever your target is:

<img src="http://picometer.writertopia.com/words=1340&target=5000" />

The result for this example is:

Comments

[azdak.livejournal.com]

An MfU fan who doesn't want angst? Wow. Who can it be? It can't be me, since I'm not particpating this year. Are you going for humour, fluff or action instead?

250 words is great! And knowing what you need to find out about to write the next bit is good as well.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I think you'd recognize the name ;-)

I'm trying for action and humor. The humor is what's hard to gauge in my own writing.