Happy Friday, writers,
Today we have a couple of offerings designed to kick-start your writing (or to keep up the momentum, if you're already in a flow).
The first is on
our blog, where, in this week's Micro Fiction Challenge, your task is to write a 25-word (or shorter) short story using the word Zoilus.
The winner gets a brand-new copy of Yann Martel's novel The High Mountains of Portugal.
Get your creative juices flowing and enter the contest here.
The second: We've written about the benefits of accountability again and again and again. Sometimes all a writer needs is to know that someone, somewhere out there, gives a damn about whether or not
we're writing.
And that's what we want to offer you this week, if you don't already have it: A writing accountability partner or two. Someone on the other end of the computer who gives a damn.
Someone to report to with your goals and your progress, daily, weekly, whatever.
We know that many of you don't have easy access to other writers or to writing groups, but all you need for this is
an email address.
If you and your partner(s) decide to share work, then that's cool. But it's not mandatory. In fact, for many writers (including me), it's not even appealing.
Accountability is about process and progress, not about product. (If you're interested in process and progress *and* product, too, you might
consider coaching. Let's chat!)
So! If you’re interested, reply to this message with the following details, and I'll do my best to set you up (for FREE) with your own writing accountability partner, or two, or three:
- Your daily and/or weekly writing goals, however you define them (time, word count, etc.)
- The genre you're working in (be as specific as possible)
- Your ideal number of accountability partners (1, 2 or 3)
- Anything else I should know about you, your project, or your preferences in an accountability partner
Operators (me) are (am) standing (sitting) by.
That's right: Me am sitting by.
David Duhr
Co-founder, WriteByNight
P.S. If you know
someone who might benefit from today's message, please feel free to forward this email along. Go on, help a writer out.
Resources:
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