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April’s Tools

April 1, 2014April 2, 2014Posted in Writing ChallengesTagged writing challenge2 Comments

Need help or communal motivation in blogging or writing (or both) this month? There's quite a lot of choice –

Blogging from A to Z Challenge – you can't not have noticed this one. And this blog has joined in, with the first in the A-Z theme posted today. Here's the 1000+ blogger sign up list.
Camp NaNoWriMo – another month of marathon writing, but CampNaNo lets you set your own word target and project type. Log in here.
NaBoBloMo – National Book Blogging Month – Nina Amir is running this event again this month, with tip posts found at How to Blog a Book.

Day 1 Prompt of #10DayWBC

July 20, 2013July 19, 2013Posted in Writing ChallengesTagged #10DayWBC, 10 Day Writing Blogger Challenge, blog, blogging, challenge, writer, writing, writing challenge8 Comments

The Day One prompt for the 10 Day Writing Blogger Challenge. The day’s linky list signup is below.

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#ROW80 Recheck on Goals

September 5, 2012September 4, 2012Posted in Writing Challenges, Writing GoalsTagged ROW80, writing challenge, writing challengesLeave a comment

First off, let me admit that I grossly underestimated the time it takes to revise and edit a novel. Some months ago (that long, jeesh?!) I set a goal of revising my draft in a couple of months. I set target dates, started work, continued…and…everything…slooowwwwed…dooowwwwnnnn… Yawn.

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Catchup : #15habits

June 11, 2012June 11, 2012Posted in Writing ChallengesTagged writing challenge1 Comment

Yesterday I joined up with Jeff Goin’s 15 Great Habits of Great Writers challenge. I’m number 1082 on the list, and people are still slowly joining.

This post is my attempt to catch-up with the challenges so far – there are five of them, so apologies in advance for the length of the post.

Please scroll to the bottom two, however, where I ask something of you.

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A to Z Short Fiction Index

March 31, 2012March 31, 2012Posted in Writing ChallengesTagged A to Z, writing challenge1 Comment

On yesterday’s post I introduced the Blogging from A to Z challenge. On this, my writing blog, I intend to attempt to write 26 pieces of short fiction posted over April. This post will form the index and a quick explanation to those posts.

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Introducing the A-Z Challenge

March 30, 2012March 30, 2012Posted in Writing ChallengesTagged A to Z, blogging, writing challenge3 Comments

On Sunday April 1st thousands of bloggers will be commencing the Blogging from A to Z Challenge for the month. I will also be joining in this challenge on this writing blog, and also on my author’s platform.

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#ROW80 Penultimate Checkin

March 18, 2012Posted in Writing ChallengesTagged ROW80, writing challenge1 Comment

I don’t normally post a ROW80 checkin on the Sunday (for me it’s Monday already). But as there is only three more days to go on the first round of ROW80 this year, I wanted to briefly take my bearings, and set a very short-term goal.

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