Tag: 30 day challenge

• 30 Short Stories in 30 Days: The List

  Last year, for the month of January, I read a short story every day. I set this challenge for myself as a concrete goal that would expose me to many authors, genres, and writing styles in a short time and collectively improve my own writing. And it did: After each story I’d reflect on what…

  Julie Israel

  7 January, 2014

  Reading, short story, Writing

  30 day challenge, 30 stories in 30 days, fiction, short stories, writers

• Writing Challenge, Day 24: Target Audience

  30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 24: Who are you writing for? Do you have a target audience in mind? Depends what I’m writing. My current writing project is a novel I intend for high school and college-age readers (the protagonist being a college student) but I would secretly hope that the story is…

  Julie Israel

  24 June, 2012

  Creative Projects, Writing

  30 day challenge, guitar, target audience, Writing, Zee Avi

• 12 Reasons To Read Julie Israel. You’re Welcome.

    30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 22: Why should someone read your work? To experience something I painstakingly unearthed from the sands of my mind like a buried civilization one fragment at a time and then translated into a cohesive sum for your verbal pleasure, entertainment, and intimate window into human experience? *Takes…

  Julie Israel

  22 June, 2012

  Creative Projects, Humor, Writing

  30 day challenge, humor, Julie Israel, list, reasons to read, writers, Writing, writing challenge

• Writing Challenge, Day 14: Besting Writer’s Block

  30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 14: Share with us your strategies for overcoming writer’s block. There are two basic things I do to overcome creative challenges, and they work in almost any combination: Get away from computer. Engage body.* First order of business is a change of scenery. That allows time to step…

  Julie Israel

  14 June, 2012

  Creative Projects, Writing

  30 day challenge, creative block, creative brain, creative strategy, engage the body, engage the brain, engaging mental processes, holistic, mind and body, overcoming writer’s block, writer’s block, Writing

• Deadlines, Girl Jams, & 5 Good Reasons to Write

  30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 13: What motivates you to keep writing? Deadlines. Deadlines and coffee. OH, you mean the POSITIVE things. Well, let me first say this: deadlines have their positive attributes, too. If you have them, it means that someone is expecting your work, which means that someone will be reading…

  Julie Israel

  13 June, 2012

  Creative Projects, Writing

  30 day challenge, challenges, dance party, deadlines, expression, fans, girl jams, motivation, readers, reasons to write, Writing

• Writing Challenge, Day 6: The Spinning Wheel

  30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 6: What do you find to be the most rewarding aspect of being a writer? The work is the reward. For me writing is a struggle to convey myself, to portray thought and emotion and senses in words and structures and rhythms. Expression is creative problem solving, and…

  Julie Israel

  6 June, 2012

  Creative Projects, Writing

  30 day challenge, 30 day writing challenge, Chandler, creative problem solving, magic, reward, spinning wheel, writer, Writing

• Writing Challenge, Day 2: Turtle

  30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 2: What is your biggest writing weakness, and what do you think you need to change to work on it? My biggest weakness when it comes to writing is first draft perfectionism. I spend so much time trying to make the initial run coherent, flowing, and detailed that…

  Julie Israel

  2 June, 2012

  Creative Projects, Writing

  30 day challenge, editing, revising, slow, turtle, Writing, writing challenge