![]() Track your progress, and we’ll cheer each other on. Come write “like your fingers are on fire” (as my Vermont College mentor, Kathi Appelt, used to say). So… won’t you sign up with me? Think of it as a gift to yourself. Sounds to me like is exactly what I need! For example, 37,521 would be thirty-seven thousand, five hundred and twenty one. Then work your way along the word until youve finished. Writing challenge 1000 words a day series#a Working Title on the 85K Writing Challenge podcast series produced by author J.P. Years ago, I accepted the suggestion of 1,000 words written every day that I discovered in reading Carolyn See’s life-changing Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers. To write a whole number as a word, you start with the left side of the number.That means you have to sit down with your calendar and figure out where, when, and how you’re going to write 1,000 words each of those days. a WriterStat Project Tracker for tracking your words, For instance, with this 1,000 words a day writing challenge, you already know that every day from May 31 to June 13, you have to write 1,000 words a day if you want to win the challenge.“Productivity cycles include the initial 90-Day Write followed by the 60-Day Edit, 60-Day Prep, 60-Day Publish, and three 30-Day Finish cycles strategically placed throughout the year. Writers who follow the five productivity cycles embedded in our 12-month calendar can easily produce one novel per year. “Our mission is to embrace the writing life throughout the year by advancing the practice of productive writing from the first word to the first reader. Julie Valerie, the founder of says, “Our goal is to write 85,000 words in 90 days every January, February, and March. Unlike NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, which takes place in November, the 85K90 challenge continues through the year, encouraging writers to edit and revise after finishing the first draft. And the words don’t have to be beautiful. Sounds daunting, but like I said in my October post, it’s only 4 double-spaced pages. The 85K writing challenge: write 85,000 words in the first 90 days of the year. Without your writing & without all the teachers posting each week, the 100 Word Challenge would never have gotten off the ground yet here we are 11 years after the first prompt which was ‘the wind howled in the trees’. Desultory: going from one thing to another, without a definite plan or purpose. In its initial stage, the nascent film industry faced harsh opposition from moral groups. Nascent: beginning to exist, not fully developed. It’s a great relationship (every author needs a critique partner or writing group-just saying!), but in addition to our exchange, for 2019 I’ve signed up for… The peripatetic bards of yore propagated the words of the Holy Prophet. This next month I’m committing to writing every single day, 500 words a day on average. I exchange 25 pages a month with a critique partner-a goal that motivates me to get scenes out of my head and onto the page. Writing is a solitary activity, but we don’t have to do it alone. ![]()
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