Writing Challenge
Sometimes it’s not the writing that’s hard; it’s the sitting down and doing it. Once you’re sitting down and actually writing, things can come a bit easier, but pulling you away from your nachos and the latest game of footy is an interesting challenge indeed.
Talking with my good friend DaveP, we discovered one more thing we have in common – a novel we should be working on more than we actually work on it. We talked more on the matter, and I proposed a challenged.
The Weekly Writer’s Challenge.
Every week on Sunday, I will propose a writing challenge for writers to complete every day starting the following Monday and ending when the next challenge is posted the next Sunday.
For our starting challenge, we’ll have something simple to get the ball rolling. This week, starting tomorrow and completing when next week’s challenge is posted, my challenge is this:
Write for twenty minutes a day.
This may not sound like much, but as my friend Leslie says, “It’s amazing how much you can get done in twenty minutes.? (She is the woman who has accomplished what many of us dream of – living off earnings from writing.)
There are a few more rules, though.
You must pick one project, one story idea, one something, and work on that for the entire week. I’m choosing my novel rather than something else because I know it can keep me writing.
There are no punishments (in fact good on you!) if you go over, but you must write for a minimum of twenty minutes, and this doesn’t include the time you spend shuffling papers and wondering if you can remember the name of the person who invented post-it note glue.
If you’d like to participate in this challenge and are going to blog about it, use the “contact me? button on the right and send me the URL of your blog.
Enjoy.
June 24th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
I’m up for the challenge. I could use some motivation with novel. Hardest part for me is to write every day.
June 24th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Great idea Jaime, but what would you do without me eh? Lol
I’m torn between working on my novel or a short story for this one but I’ll definitely be taking part
June 24th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Richard - Awesome. I’ll put up posts where you can talk about what you’re working on, progress, how hard/easy it was to sit down and do it.
Dave - I’d get all my other post ideas done.