31 Days of Ninja Writing: Welcome
What to expect from the challenge.
Hey, Ninja Writer!
For the next 31 days, you’re going to get a tip or a challenge — something actionable that you can do in a few minutes that will help you build a daily writing habit. This challenge is the essence of what it means to be a Ninja Writer.
Before we get started tomorrow, there are a couple of preliminary things that you can do today.
- Join us on Facebook. The Ninja Writers Facebook group is the most engaged, incredible, active writing community I’ve ever been involved with. I hope you’ll be a part of it.
- Get a brand new notebook. You’re going to need one for this challenge. It can be something simple — just a spiral bound notebook or composition book. Or you can get all fancy. We even have what we think are the most amazing notebooks ever in our shop. It’s up to you. I like simple, because fancy sometimes makes me worry about messing up.
- Commit to spending 10 minutes reading and 10 minutes writing every day in May. Stephen King says that writers need to read and write every day. Who are we to argue? Break it up if you have to. You can do this!
- Commit to spending 10 minutes a day being a Ninja Writer in May. That’s all you’ll need for assignments outside of reading and writing. This is a 20 to 30 minute a day challenge. I promise.
- If you have writer friends, share the link to this post so they can get signed up.This will be even more fun with a friend.
- You can find the past posts here. They’ll post on Medium in the afternoon — email subscribers get them first!
That’s it, Ninja Writer. See you tomorrow with assignment number one!
Love, Shaunta
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Shaunta Grimes is a writer and teacher. She is an out-of-place Nevadan living in Northwestern PA with her husband, three superstar kids, two dementia patients, a good friend, Alfred the cat, and a yellow rescue dog named Maybelline Scout. She’s on Twitter @shauntagrimes and is the original Ninja Writer.
