August Writing Challenge

[mousme]

It's July 31st, so I'm not too late to be posting this announcement here. ai731 is running her August Writing Challenge again 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_writing community 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 every day 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, 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 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.

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.

Comments

[elanya.livejournal.com]

so, does everything you write each day have to be a self contained piece? I can write everyday, I am not sure I can write somethig a: online (moving -_-) and b: self contained every day :/

I am the slowest writer ever :p

[mousme.livejournal.com]

No, it doesn't have to be self-contained. In fact, a one-line announcement saying "I wrote today. Complete piece forthcoming in a few days," is fine, and was in fact used by more than one of us last year. :)

You can absolutely write in a notebook and transcribe several days later as well. We did a lot of that last year (I was away from the computer for the better part of a week in August).

[elanya.livejournal.com]

sweet, I'm in :)

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Woohoo!

[curtana.livejournal.com]

I will give it a try, although we're going on vacation for a week. I guess I'll bring a notebook :) Oh, and that whole taking care of Arthur thing tends to get in the way of my writing as well ;)

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Three-line poems also count as "writing every day." Just so you know. :)

[ai731.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the plug. Your friends list accounts for at least 20% of our membership!

[mousme.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I think I've recruited two more for you this year. elanya and curtana have made noises about joining up. :)

This year is going to be awesome. I can't believe how many people are joining!

[ai731.livejournal.com]

You can't believe it - think how I feel. I'm trying to come to terms with the fact that I seem to have created one of them 'online community' thingies...

[terredancer.livejournal.com]

I love the fact that a couple of people on my friends list made noises about joining, and that I think someone from one of their friends lists is going to be trying it too.

So much fun to spread the love :)