Tuesday the 11th was the first day of my Stephen King Writing Challenge. For seven days I’m challenging myself to: Write 2,000 ‘fairly clean’ words for a creative work each day. (i.e.: Not blog writing or promotional writing.) Work on one creative story/piece at a time. (No hopping between stories – we face our writer’s…
I explain the The Stephen King Writing Challenge rules to my dad.
“Wait, what are you doing this week?” “Dad, I just told you. I’m doing a challenge based on Stephen King’s writing process.” “I thought you did that last week.” “No. I mean, yes. That was a writing challenge, and I did do it a couple of weeks ago, but this is something different.” “OK…” “You…
Lessons learned from the 5am Writer’s Club Challenge
Despite the agony of getting up early, and working through my birthday weekend, I managed to complete the 5amwritersclub challenge. I thought this challenge would shake some of the cobwebs out of my writing process, but I had no idea how much it would change my perspective. Here are the three main things I learned:…
5am Writer’s Club Challenge – Day Seven
After a full week of anxiety, concern, and yelling at my keyboard, I was anticipating something big happening on my last day of the challenge. When it comes to my big projects, Murphy’s Law tends to kick in the second I’m about to finish. Naturally, I thought I would find some loophole which would render…