elanya

A friend of a friend runs this thing, and has been for a couple years now (I think - at least two years), and I think it is good - I have been trying to do some writing everyday anyway, and I'm also hoping that I can restart Pieces once I am in Texas. I also know there are other people on my friends list who do a lot of writing and who I thought might be interested in this, so here:

It's July 31st, so I'm not too late to be posting this announcement here. ai731 is running her August Writing Challengeagain this year. I highly recommend it for all my writer friends out there: last year was a blast, and this year promises to be even better,as tons and tons of people have joined!

Here's what she wrote in her introductory post:

Jan's August Writing Challenge
Write something every day in the month of August.

Sounds tough! What do I have to do?

Write. Something. Anything. Any length. Prose or poetry. Every day. For a month. And share it.

Sounds cool! How do I sign up?

Join the august_writingcommunity if you're not already a member
Link to this post in your LJ so that we can get as many people involved as possible
Post either your writing, or a link to your writing to the community everyday in August, starting on Tuesday, August 1st, 2006.


Sounds simple! Are there any other rules?

Nope.Well, not really. It has to be creative writing - prose or poetry, ofany any length, on any subject. Stuff you would normally be writing anyway counts (so, for those who write serials, that counts) but stuff you write for your job doesn't. But it can be anything. Short fiction,short-short fiction, essays, character studies,stream-of-consciousness, writing exercises (like last year I'm going to try to post a different writing exercise every day for anyone who would like to use it), sections of a larger work you have in progress, etc.Anything at all, so long as it's a self-contained piece of writing that you did that day. It would also be really cool if you could read and comment on a couple of other posts every day.


I am probably going to post stuff to and from measured_words, but really, I don't check that journal's friends page often, so I joined it from here so i can see other people's stuff.