a break from 40forty

Hey everybody! Welcome to day one of 40forty! I know there aren't that many of us, but if anyone wants to be a late-comer to the party, I don't mind. You can catch up at any time.

For those of us who are here, YAY AND WELCOME! I have a really good feeling about this.

Your word goal today is 1011 words, and it can be done in any format. If you don't get around to posting daily, you can just double up your words the next day or catch up whenever you have the chance. No pressure!

Looking forward to seeing you all posting! I'll be working on mine, a drabble I think, when I get home from grocery shopping. Woo woo! EXCITED. OMG.

Also, I made us a twitter for doing word sprints. I'll be online there quite frequently, and we can all write together! click me - unfortunately 40forty was taken by some TIT who only made two very useless tweets, so I had to make it 40fortysprint.

Looking forward to writing with all of you!

- Effy

Hi there! I'm Alex and know some of you already. I'm 19, Australian and an all round geek. I've been writing since 2003 (mostly fanfiction) and roleplaying seriously since Sep 2008. I've done Nano a few times but never have won *cries* but hopefully I can do something this year. I won rpwrimo last year so hopefully this won't be that hard... right?

You can find me on AIM the most at moonsdreaming but I also have YIM/MSN/Gtalk if preferred. Email is bookworm1987@gmail.com

A lot of my writing has disappeared with my old webhost disappearing/laptop dying but I still have some around the place. I'm slowly posting it at arevolvingworld.

So yeah, thats me in a nutshell.

Here is the first of the daily prompts! Don't feel pressured to use it, it's just a suggestion in case you're having trouble getting started.

Two characters have not seen each other for ten years. A lot has changed in their lives, and neither is the same person that the other knew.

Include the words: stick, butter, stairwell.

Also, let me know how you would like to get prompts. Does a scenario like the one above suit you, or would you prefer just a jumble of words that might spark something? Would you prefer if I set up a prompt table? Let me know!

- Effy

Fashionably late to the party, as always.

Well, hello there. I'm Raechl. There isn't much I don't enjoying saying about myself (please note the sarcasm) so I'm settling with just saying the bare essentials to avoid a long, rambling post.

(still, sarcasm; but I appreciate your attentiveness)

I'm nineteen, I'm currently in the lovely fuck I hate this state Oregon and will be for probably the next, oh, two weeks. Beside that, I've been writing for a long, long time. So long, I don't even feel like looking back at it and counting it up. So "long" will just have to suffice until I can be bothered to count properly.

I'm excited to read things and will probably, myself, be focusing mostly on belting out original fiction because I like harboring characters like children.

You can reach me at supercat malloy via aim if you'd like to chat, and I'm always up finding awesome people or having them find me.

better late than pregnant. i'm mick, i'm 20, i haven't made an ooc intro in like a year, so this is way weird for me! i quit harry potter roleplaying about a year ago to focus on other things, and while i think it was a great move for me as far as branching out and trying new things, i feel like my writing has pretty much gone down hill. i'm on a hiatus from most of my games right now to focus on getting all my inspiration and motivation back and when i stumbled across this yesterday morning, it looked like JUST the thing i needed! i'm really easily intimidated by other people and how well they write, so there's a 98% chance that i'll start handing out the compliment cookies very soon! i'm pretty random, and i swear to god i have the WORST internet ADD known to man, so if we're ever talking on aim, don't feel too bad if i randomly disappear due to something shiny i stumbled upon! i stalk amber heard because i think she's perfect and my favorite band is kings of leon. i'm AIMable at POLITE IIN PUBLIC, which i should probably sign onto, and i think that's it! i look forward to reading what everyone has to write, and i look forward to writing my own stuff!

Hi there!

I'm Kat, and I'm here from the lovely not-snowy Olympic city itself. Don't you just love the irony?

I go to school; I take the bus; I geek out about politics; I geek out about musical theatre; I don't get enough sleep; I demonstrate that I love the English language with every semi-colon and literary device that I name. I also RP Harry Potter and Glee, because it's fun. I also procrastinate and harbour love for tea and chocolate and all things British.

This would appear to add up to "I am an odd child", but whatever.

My schedule jumps from place to place like anything, so the short form is that I'm basically out all day on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and the rest just comes and goes as it will.

Anyway, I'm on AIM as sungonabraverday, and I look forward to meeting you!