Tag: 30 day writing challenge
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Writing Challenge, Day 29: Good Idea, Bad Idea
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 29: What do you do while you write? Do you listen to music, watch TV, eat snacks, etc.? This is a dangerous question. Paraphrased it might read “With what sparkly trivialities do you busy yourself whilst pretending to write?” I like to think I can multi-task, but hey,…
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Writing Challenge, Day 28: Stealing Inspiration
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 28: When you write, to what degree do real-life experiences serve as inspiration? So, my favorite writing teacher ever taught our English class an important lesson on the first very day. She said, to a room of eager, innocent young faces: “Boys and girls, if you want to…
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Writing Challenge, Day 27: Panning for Gold
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 27: When was the last time you wrote something you didn’t expect to write? Wouldn’t you know it, the last time I sat down with a clear direction and went on an absolute tangent was only five days ago in answering the prompt for Day 22: “Why should…
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Writing Challenge, Day 26: The Great Impervious Ego
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 26: Who do you trust to read your writing and offer critical feedback before you submit your work? I think I’d trust pretty much anyone who genuinely wants to read something I have written, whether because they’ve heard a piece is good (as was common in high school)…
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Writing Challenge, Day 25: Starting the Fire
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 25: What makes you want to write more? I find there are a few things that stoke the creative fire: Real-world inspiration. Reading about people like Amanda Hocking with wild success stories is immensely encouraging. Hocking had tried for years to get her books accepted by publishing houses…
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Ask not what your readers can do for you…
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge Day 21: How do YOU hope to help your fellow writers–now or in the future? I know that one thing I really value as a writer is a partner-in-crime (reader) who will devote the time and care to sitting down with my work, reading it, and providing honest critical…
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Revision, Or: Hell & Hot Pockets
Warning: I use an uncharacteristic amount of expletives in this post. I guess I feel quite strongly about revision. 30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge, Day 19: Describe your revision process. Haaaahahaha…“process”. That implies organization. My revisioning is rather haphazard, actually. It’s kind of like trying to put out a fire with gasoline, and then…
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Writing Challenge, Day 16: Have No Fear
30 Day Know Thyself Writing Challenge by Writer’s Relief Day 16: As a writer, what are your biggest fears? How can you overcome them? I don’t know which writing fear is worse: that of not being read, or that of being read, judged, and not liked. It seems contradictory to possess both, but there you…
Julie Israel 