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Consistency Challenge: February Fanfare!
February is 28 days. Let’s see what happens if you show up for most of them! This challenge is a low-pressure way for you to build a huge stack of evidence for your identity as a writer. No 30k word goals or hustle required, just a solid foundation of you consistently showing up. Works for newbie novelists, part-time poets, or even industry professionals; anyone can benefit from writing more often. How to join: 1. Comment “I’m in” on this post. That’s it, you’re in. Optional: If you want to be a Booster, check the bottom of this post for how to do the “Share Boost” thing and get a shoutout in the recap/Hall of Fame. What counts as showing up: A day counts if you make a post of about 30+ words in the group - doesn't have to be much, just not "Hey, I'm alive" - that moves your writing forward. Make sure to include "X/28" in the title (X being the number of days you've done) so it's easy for you to keep track. For example: “5/28 - Micro-scene before work” Examples that count: - A Daily Write post - A response to the weekly prompt - A short draft/micro-scene/poem - A list of ideas or titles you might write - A reflection on what blocked you today and what you’ll try tomorrow - A question asking for feedback, with some context or a sample Busy? Kids? Full‑time job or school? All three? No stress! If you can write a short paragraph, you can participate. If you prefer to lurk, no worries, but for the challenge, you've gotta put some actual words down (even if they're not prose). Also - the days don't have to be consecutive! Consistency doesn't mean "become a robot", and we've all got lives; if you need to miss a day or two, no worries. Three Ways To Win: February has 28 days. You can land in any of these: - Gold - February Finisher: Post on 21+ days - Silver - February Builder: Post on 14–20 days - Bronze - February Starter: Post on 7–13 days Any tier is a win. The point is to build proof, not perfection. On March 1, I'll make a post for you to show:
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Weekly Prompt 3 - The Unsent
This is a pick-and-choose prompt. Nothing here is mandatory; the goal is to get you writing, not to “do it right.” If ignoring part of the prompt helps you start, ignore it without guilt. Write a message that was never sent. It could be: - a letter - a text - a voicemail - a note left in a book - runes carved in stone ages ago - or something adjacent that feels right to you The recipient can be named, or left implied. The reason it was never sent can be shown, hinted at, or not addressed at all. If structure helps you, here are optional tools you can use at your discretion: - Write one page max or minimum (or wordcount, lines, etc) - Set a timer (minimum or maximum, your call) - Try removing dialogue tags (no "he said", etc.) - Stop mid-sentence when you’re done If you want an extra angle to play with: - Let the most important thing be the thing not said - Or write it as if it almost gets sent… but doesn’t - Show the message from the perspective of someone who wasn't meant to read it Post your work in Daily Write with Weekly Prompt 3 in the title so I can find it. As always, unpolished is not just okay, it’s preferred.
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Start Ugly
This is for the ones who are just starting, coming back or are in a moment where the blank page sits and waits: For the days the words don’t come. Sit with silence like an old friend. Start ugly. Begin broken. Finish gently. Let it go. And when the world asks what you made... say only this: “I made a way back to myself"
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3/28 The Stampede
I feel this rant belongs in the challenges section because I find myself in the strange space between being aware, wanting to let the process happen - to feel the situation, and wanting very much to preserve my own peace and reject the more than natural feelings that are coming up this week. I'm talking about the elelphant in the room or rather the stampede of angry, incredulous, fearful and devastating feelings that are driving the elephants throughout our global awareness. I'm an American living in Eastern Europe and I cannot unsee nor unaware myself of the elephants. Yet the horror is so thick with reality that dissociation is attractive and probably a necessary part of processing in order to stay with that reality and hold space for the truth, to not make little or make light of what it is, to not deny and reject what we are about to face for the coming months and years. Obviously, this becomes a huge obstacle to being creative, at least right now. Getting into the flow to create something with whimsy, passion or concentration feels forced, strained. In equal measure, I cringe to think of writing as a way to express what I'm feeling, to create something from this unprecedented time in our communal consciousness. It all just feels inherrently inadequate. I dare not speak of the stampede of elephants. It's too hard, too hardcore. But these are my personal feelings, and perhaps it's just challenging because I must prepare myself to both express and supress my feelings on the topic whenever it's broached with the 20 or so other feeling, thinking professional adults I will meet over the next week. I wonder if anyone else has similar feelings? Is anyone else dismayed and distracted to the point that writing isn't flowing, that the mind must detach, and somehow the elephants must be addressed before returning to our creations? Or perhaps you are blessed with enough distance to be able to express something poigniant, and it has great potential for your creative process? Thank you for reading and I would be grateful for your thoughts, as a different perspective would be amazing.
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When Rewriting Stops Working
I’ve seen writers rewrite the same book three or four times and still feel stuck. At some point, rewriting stops helping. That’s usually the moment when the problem isn’t the writing itself, but the direction of the story. You can polish sentences forever and still miss the core issue. Sometimes clarity beats craft. Has rewriting ever made you feel more confused instead of clearer?
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