The Acronym "WIP"

[Oliveman]

Ok well I've started to get to know the whole "culture" of the forums, and one of the Acronyms I've seen in almost every post and in many signatures, is "WIP". Now I know it means "Work In Progress", but it comes too close to "whip" to avoid connotations of the WIP whipping the author relentlessly till the WIP is finally finished and gets to RIP (another bad one). I was just wondering if anyone can come up with other creative acronym alternatives to this one we have grown to use all the time.

And I've already come up with "BIK" (Book in progress), which isn't much better.

Be creative! :)

[beezle]

WIPDOA?

[TheIT]

For definitions used around the forums, see The Absolute Write Dictionary:

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21648

By the way, BIC = Butt in Chair (see the "Learn Writing with Uncle Jim" thread).

[Willowmound]

BIK is too similar to BIC.

And you will never get people to change their acronym habits. You just won't :p

[Zolah]

CB - current book, or CP - current project. Or PIP - project in progress (for those whose WIP is really giving them the PIP).

[scarletpeaches]

WIPDOA?

Weasels in Panama don't often accumulate?

What has the vermin population got to do with this thread?

[beezle]

You'll know when the time comes.

[Selcaby]

What does the K in BIK stand for?

[Perks]

Be creative! :)I need to save my creativity for the work. I have a finite supply and the stores are low.

[scarletpeaches]

Ballsacks in Kenya.

[Willowmound]

What does the K in BIK stand for?

It must have something to do with the 'creativity' Oliveman was looking for. Creative spelling?

[Carrie in PA]

WIPIDEEDOODAH? :D

[scarletpeaches]

WIPIDEEDOODAH? :D

When indiscreet people individually dance, every elephant dances out of desperation and hyperactivity?

[PeeDee]

S.E.X. is a very popular writer acronym.

No, I won't tell you what it means. Go ask your mother.

[Carrie in PA]

When indiscreet people individually dance, every elephant dances out of desperation and hyperactivity?

Dang, and I thought no one would get that!! :roll:

[PeeDee]

You two have lost me, but I'm still fascinated...

[Azure Skye]

When indiscreet people individually dance, every elephant dances out of desperation and hyperactivity?

LOL

You're really good at this.

[Carrie in PA]

You two have lost me, but I'm still fascinated...

Don't you mean YTHLMBISF?

[scarletpeaches]

Don't you mean YTHLMBISF?

Yesterday, the highest, longest mountain blew into smithereens, fast.

[Carrie in PA]

Yesterday, the highest, longest mountain blew into smithereens, fast.

:roll: :roll: Let's play Stump Peaches!

TRPSHICPRFTGGLM

[scarletpeaches]

:roll: :roll: Let's play Stump Peaches!

TRPSHICPRFTGGLM

Three red porcupines said hello, in case people rudely farted to get giggles like mine...:ROFL:

[Carrie in PA]

Three red porcupines said hello, in case people rudely farted to get giggles like mine...:ROFL:

:roll: :roll: That was awesome!!!! :Hail: :Hail: :Hail: :Hail:


How about VPDIQPLZRNGTFQ

[Azure Skye]

Three red porcupines said hello, in case people rudely farted to get giggles like mine...:ROFL:

:Trophy::Trophy::Trophy:

[scarletpeaches]

:roll: :roll: That was awesome!!!! :Hail: :Hail: :Hail: :Hail:


How about VPDIQPLZRNGTFQ

Oh dear god...this is like scrabble, when you get no vowels...

*ahem*

Virgins pleasure dicks in quim, poking little zebras' ringpieces, not going too far, quickly???

[PeeDee]

Virgins pleasure dicks in quim, poking little zebras' ringpieces, not going too far, quickly???

That's hot.

[Carrie in PA]

Oh dear god...this is like scrabble, when you get no vowels...

*ahem*

Virgins pleasure dicks in quim, poking little zebras' ringpieces, not going too far, quickly???

:roll: :roll: :roll: That took a decidedly naughty turn. LOL!!!

Vowels, you say? How about ORDEFITARELACIEFUNO

[farfromfearless]

Wow. my brain hurts now.

[Serena Casey]

How about AIP, Anguish in Progress?

[scarletpeaches]

:roll: :roll: :roll: That took a decidedly naughty turn. LOL!!!

Vowels, you say? How about ORDEFITARELACIEFUNO

I'm just glad the swear filter's off...although by the time we all get tired of this game...

Old royals defecate every Friday, in toilets, after really eating lice and cockroaches - in easily found underpants, neatly organised. :D

[Carrie in PA]

PDASORPFT = Peaches deserves a shitload of rep points for this!!!! :ROFL: :ROFL:

WEDPSCIXTUFEELUZAU

[scarletpeaches]

PDASORPFT = Peaches deserves a shitload of rep points for this!!!! :ROFL: :ROFL:

WEDPSCIXTUFEELUZAU

I'm scared I'm going to lose my power...

Weasels entertain dogs, pushing small cats in xylophones, tripping up felines, eventually even laughing, utilising zithers and ukeleles.

[Carrie in PA]

I'm scared I'm going to lose my power...

Weasels entertain dogs, pushing small cats in xylophones, tripping up felines, eventually even laughing, utilising zithers and ukeleles.

You are a goddess among mortals, let me tell you. I'm laughing my ass off. (Oh, that it could be literal! :ROFL: )

Hmm, how about PPPORUNDUFRCCUAEPIE :D

[scarletpeaches]

You are a goddess among mortals, let me tell you. I'm laughing my ass off. (Oh, that it could be literal! :ROFL: )

Hmm, how about PPPORUNDUFRCCUAEPIE :D

People protest persistently, over relatively undemanding new diets, understanding few recipes; chocolate chip underpants are easily prepared in eateries.

[James D. Macdonald]

WIP = GDFBFH = Gosh Darn Farking Book From Heck

[scarletpeaches]

Language, James! :D

[Prawn]

Ballsacks in Kenya.

Who's Kenya?

[Thomma Lyn]

How 'bout NIP = Novel-in-Progress, in other words get the dang thing done so you can NIP it in the bud? :D

[Zolah]

Children, children, children...What are you doing with your lives? Is this the best you can do? I'm really very disappointed at the speed with which this innocuous thread degenerated into unnecessary rudeness and filth.

I thought you'd get there at least three posts earlier. Use it or lose it, people!

[badducky]

Language, James! :D

Loving all new green ukeleles allows great entertainment, Just admit massive excitement Scarletpeaches!

[Zolah]

Sweet Crisp Aroma: Roses Lose Each Tiny Petal, Enveloping All Careless, Halcyon Evening Summers

[badducky]

<Z>any <O>rgasms <L>urking <A>round <H>amsters...

[WildScribe]

I've always loved this game, but you people are taking it to a WHOLE new level.

How about: MDUN: My darn unfinished novel.

[ChunkyC]

Harumph!

I'd just like to say TTBDOWSOTPOSIATB!

that this brazen display of writerly skill on the part of Scarletpeaches is astonishing to behold!

:D

[smiley10000]

I want to play too!

Best Actor Died During Underwater Crocodile Kiliing Yesterday

You guys are hilarious!
:ROFL:10000

[badducky]

Harumph!

I'd just like to say TTBDOWSOTPOSIATB!

Trash That Big, Dumb Oaf With Smileys Over What She Oozed Towards Pretty Organized Smart Intelligent Amazing Talented Badducky!



:D

[Zolah]

<Z>any <O>rgasms <L>urking <A>round <H>amsters...

You just HAD to lower the tone again, didn't cha?

Bears Amble Dutifully, Down Under Carol's Kangeroo Yodeller

[soloset]

I'm just glad the swear filter's off...although by the time we all get tired of this game...

Just because the swear filter's off doesn't mean we need to abuse it. Geez.

[ChaosTitan]

*is braced for the move to Office Party, while simultaneously laughing her @$$ off*

[Celia Cyanide]

Why
I
Procrastinate

[UrsusMinor]

Who needs acronyms? I just call it the monkey on my back, my jonze, impending doom, or simply "it."

Listen, I know what people are really getting at when they say, "Hey, how's it going?"

Uh-huh. It. How's it going. Can't people stop badgering me about this project? People I don't even know keep asking me about "it", which implies that people I thought I knew, people I trusted, are talking about me behind my back, about me and my, um...WIP.

[Oliveman]

Pounding Away, Taxing The Heavily Exausted Brain Under Necessiarily Noisy Yearnings

So, how is your PAT THE BUNNY going?

[David McAfee]

And I've already come up with "BIK" (Book in progress), which isn't much better.

Be creative! :)

B.I.K. is Book In Progress?? Maybe you meant Book In Krogress? Hmm...still doesn't sound right. ;)

[David McAfee]

WIP = GDFBFH = Gosh Darn Farking Book From Heck

Words from the master... (bowing)

[Oliveman]

BIK being Book in Progress IS creative. Don't you get it? Sheesh

*with a swish of his cape, he marches off stage in a huff*

[PeeDee]

BIK being Book in Progress IS creative. Don't you get it? Sheesh

*with a swish of his cape, he marches off stage in a huff*

NOW I have a tension headache. I canNOT work like this. My GOD. I will be in my trailer. I don't want to talk to anyone except my agent. ASS.

[kwwriter]

That's hot.

Freaking! I'm still a newbie here...whew...what I'm learning on these here pages...<wink> blush.

[Sean D. Schaffer]

Ok well I've started to get to know the whole "culture" of the forums, and one of the Acronyms I've seen in almost every post and in many signatures, is "WIP". Now I know it means "Work In Progress", but it comes too close to "whip" to avoid connotations of the WIP whipping the author relentlessly till the WIP is finally finished and gets to RIP (another bad one). I was just wondering if anyone can come up with other creative acronym alternatives to this one we have grown to use all the time.

And I've already come up with "BIK" (Book in progress), which isn't much better.

Be creative! :)

BIPWILTTEADLOCSTICGOTWIWOTSPOSTITSBCAN

Book in Progress While I listen to the Eagles and Drink Lots of Coffee so that I can get overly tense while I'm working on this stupid piece of sh!t that I think should be called a Novel.

[badducky]

Also useful is the good, old-fashioned descriptor "sh!+", best snarled with a glass of kentucky bourbon in one hand and a cigar in the other.

Like this:

The broad came up to me and she said to me, she said, "Hey, tough guy. What's that you got there?"

I took one long drag of my cigar. I blew the smoke up to her face. "It's sh!+, baby. Nothing but sh!+. You want some bourbon, baby?"

[Willowmound]

Also useful is the good, old-fashioned descriptor "sh!+", best snarled with a glass of kentucky bourbon in one hand and a cigar in the other.

Then how do you type?

Oh.

Never mind.

*shudders*