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elanya at 06:26pm on 23/07/2007 under creative writing
elanya at 06:26pm on 23/07/2007 under creative writingThis will be the second year I've participated in this, but I had a great time writing for it and reading other people's stuff last year. Some people (read: the clinically insane) use it s a warm-up for NaNoWriMo, so if that's your bag, then go to town! For me, it acts as further impetus to keep the goal I gave myself of writing every day *always* (which I've been doing poorly at lately, so this is well timed). It is also just a nice community, with lots of writing feed back and some fun little exercises.
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ai731's post on the topic, and so...
I'm just going to copy
ai731's post on the topic, and so...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 theaugust_writing community if you're not already a member
Advertiseaugust_writing 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 Wednesday, August 1st, 2007. Note: Many people (myself included) won't have Internet access every day in August. Please feel free to post a few days writing at a time, if you aren't online every day. The challenge is to write every day.
Sounds simple! Are there any other rules?
Nope.Well, not really. It has to be creative writing - fiction or fact,prose or poetry, of any 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 in previous years there will be a different writing exercise posted to the community 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 few other posts everyday.
Last year's was a heck of a lot of fun for everyone who joined in, whether they managed to finish or not. I loved reading everyone else's stuff, and I learned a hell of a lot about my own writing. I'm really looking forward to seeing amazingly creative output again this year.
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_writing community if you're not already a memberAdvertise
august_writing so that we can get as many people involved as possiblePost either your writing, or a link to your writing to the community everyday in August, starting on Wednesday, August 1st, 2007. Note: Many people (myself included) won't have Internet access every day in August. Please feel free to post a few days writing at a time, if you aren't online every day. The challenge is to write every day.
Sounds simple! Are there any other rules?
Nope.Well, not really. It has to be creative writing - fiction or fact,prose or poetry, of any 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 in previous years there will be a different writing exercise posted to the community 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 few other posts everyday.
Last year's was a heck of a lot of fun for everyone who joined in, whether they managed to finish or not. I loved reading everyone else's stuff, and I learned a hell of a lot about my own writing. I'm really looking forward to seeing amazingly creative output again this year.
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