500 words a day challenge
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine proposed a challenge to write 500 words a day for 365 days. Then, he settled on a start date of today, March 1. I suppose I should have written about this challenge sooner, but I invite anyone reading this to join us. Here are the rules:
I, personally, will probably share the bulk of my writing. As a matter of fact, my reason for participating is to improve my blogging, so it makes more sense for me to include some of my blog posts as well. If you don't like long posts, you might want to read me via RSS over the next year so you can skip anything you're not interested in ;) This should be good practice for November.
The reason I mention November is because it is National Novel Writing Month. I've known about it for a couple of years now, but this year might be the first year that I actually participate. If I keep with the 500 words per day challenge, I hope to be comfortable enough with my writing by then to start working on the sci-fi novel that's been floating around my head for the past decade or two. Since this challenge will hopefully still be in full swing as well, I'll be able to kill two birds with one stone ;)
As well as nanowrimo, November is also known as Movember. I heard about this charity event last year about halfway through the month, so I was a bit too late to the party and was unable to participate.
The idea of Movember is to start the month clean-shaven, then grow and groom a mustache until the end of the month. As I mentioned, it's a charity event which is designed to raise not only money, but also awareness, for men's health issues. It's a really great cause, so I will probably participate in that as well.
Anyhow, back to the 500 words per day challenge ;) This entry marks day one and I hope to still be going strong on day 365. Like I said, I’ll share the bulk of what I write, but there may be days that I don’t post anything to the blog. This does not mean that I skipped the day. It just means that I wrote off-line and didn’t feel like sharing for the day. It could be something I feel is inferior, or I could just be lazy and not feel like typing it in after I write it ;)
If I do happen to skip a day here and there, I’ll be upfront about it. I’ll also try to make up for it by doubling my output on the following day. So long as I’m not doing 182000 words in a single day a year from now, I should be doing OK ;)
- 500 words per day
- 365 days
- You do not have to post your writing
- Should not include blog posts / livejournal entries (unless you really want to, or are simply sharing)
- Pretty much anything goes
I, personally, will probably share the bulk of my writing. As a matter of fact, my reason for participating is to improve my blogging, so it makes more sense for me to include some of my blog posts as well. If you don't like long posts, you might want to read me via RSS over the next year so you can skip anything you're not interested in ;) This should be good practice for November.
The reason I mention November is because it is National Novel Writing Month. I've known about it for a couple of years now, but this year might be the first year that I actually participate. If I keep with the 500 words per day challenge, I hope to be comfortable enough with my writing by then to start working on the sci-fi novel that's been floating around my head for the past decade or two. Since this challenge will hopefully still be in full swing as well, I'll be able to kill two birds with one stone ;)
As well as nanowrimo, November is also known as Movember. I heard about this charity event last year about halfway through the month, so I was a bit too late to the party and was unable to participate.
The idea of Movember is to start the month clean-shaven, then grow and groom a mustache until the end of the month. As I mentioned, it's a charity event which is designed to raise not only money, but also awareness, for men's health issues. It's a really great cause, so I will probably participate in that as well.
Anyhow, back to the 500 words per day challenge ;) This entry marks day one and I hope to still be going strong on day 365. Like I said, I’ll share the bulk of what I write, but there may be days that I don’t post anything to the blog. This does not mean that I skipped the day. It just means that I wrote off-line and didn’t feel like sharing for the day. It could be something I feel is inferior, or I could just be lazy and not feel like typing it in after I write it ;)
If I do happen to skip a day here and there, I’ll be upfront about it. I’ll also try to make up for it by doubling my output on the following day. So long as I’m not doing 182000 words in a single day a year from now, I should be doing OK ;)
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