Jeff Rients announced the Worldwide Adventure Month project back on December 1st, and the past six weeks have seen several updates on the project blog and quite a bit of activity in the WoAdWriMo Forum here on TT.
This is a neat project, and I encourage you to take a peek at the official blog or the forum if you haven’t already. And if you’re planning on writing an adventure for WoAdWriMo, sound off in the roll call thread and let us know about it!
Alysia and I are in Florida until the 23rd. There’ll be a new post here every day, as always, but I won’t be able to respond to comments or email. See you soon!
Am I the only one who feels blinding rage when I see that stupid psuedo-acronym? OK, so “blinding rage” is a bit of an exageration, but I do find it so annoying that it instantly turns me off towards this project.
In regards to the “stupid psuedo-acronym” complain I think that it is such a minor detail that I wouldn’t stop from participating in the project just because of it.
The project, and the acronym, are both based on the National Novel Writing Month (referred to by its creators as NaNoWriMo). I can’t speak for Jeff, but I wouldn’t be surprised if his choice of an acronym was meant in part to show the roots of this project. I like projets that ackowledge their influences instead of just blatantly ripping those ideas off. I’m happily participating in WoAdWriMo, regardless of what it is referred to as.
I feel your pain, but only a little.
Would you prefer WAM? ‘Cuz you can wake me up before you go-go…
I second Reed’s comment, and the pedant in me is particularly pleased that he recognised it as a “PSEUDO-acronym” – although of course that’s nothing against the project. In it’s defence, I prefer it to NaNoWriMo. And I think it’s an excellent project… I’ve already signed up and would encourage people to sign up.
I think AdWriMo might make it less instantly appealing, but woadwrimo (woe add ree mow) kind of sounds cool and fantasyish in its own right if you say it out loud.
“woadwrimo”
“woadwrimo”
“woadwrimo”
or when sung to the tune of taintened love “wo – ad -ri -mo,
I’ve got to
write a game,
If I
Want to play
wo – ad – ri – mo”
Sorry to bring you down, Reed! I readily concede that the pseudo-acronym is stupid. I don’t really care for it either. When talking about WoAdWriMo I can barely say it with a straight face. But it is handy for getting people who know about NaNoWriMo to understand what the deal is. And as W_GM says it doesn’t try to hide its origins. Subtlety isn’t my strong suit.
Huh. The name doesn’t bother me, although I’ve only typed it — it may sound really funny in conversation. It sure beats WAWM or WAM, though, and the full name is too long for casual use.
I hope the name doesn’t stop anyone from signing on, in any case.