mousme | August Writing (Reply)

I'm not sure how August managed to sneak up on me like that, but according to my watch we haven't been in July for a full four minutes.

August means Jan's August Writing Challenge begins today! Here is the full test, for your edification, quoted directly from

ai731:

August is just around the corner, and so I'm very happy to announce that for the (yikes!) third year in a row, I will be running:

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
Advertise

august_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 every day 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 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.