avatarBrett Jenae Tomlin

Summary

Brett Jenae Tomlin invites Medium users to participate in the "BJ's This or That New Year's Challenge," a writing game designed to engage the community and showcase individual writing styles through a series of 20 lighthearted "This or That" questions.

Abstract

The "BJ's This or That New Year's Edition" is a playful writing challenge initiated by Brett Jenae Tomlin, aimed at fostering community engagement on Medium. Participants are encouraged to answer 20 binary questions, ranging from personal preferences to writing styles, and publish their responses in an article tagging Tomlin and the original challenge post. This interactive game serves as an alternative to traditional "About Me" articles, allowing writers to introduce themselves in a more engaging manner. The challenge also hints at the potential for monetary rewards and emphasizes the importance of community growth and interaction within the Medium platform.

Opinions

  • The author views the "This or That" challenge as a fun and interactive way to bring the Medium community together, especially after a successful December challenge.
  • Tomlin is enthusiastic about the new year and prefers to focus on the enjoyment of writing and community building rather than the pressure of new year's resolutions.
  • The challenge is seen as an opportunity for writers to express their personalities and writing styles, potentially leading to increased visibility and connections within the Medium community.
  • There is an underlying pride in the challenge's popularity and a hopeful expectation for its continued success and growth.
  • The author playfully uses colloquial language and humor to create a welcoming and casual atmosphere for participants.
  • Tomlin encourages tagging and sharing to facilitate the discovery of new writers and to strengthen the network within the platform.
  • The challenge is also presented as a chance for writers to potentially earn money, adding an incentive beyond community engagement.
  • The author promotes their Medium publication, "BJ's This or That," and invites followers, suggesting a strategic effort to increase the publication's reach and influence.

Writing | Community

BJ’s This or That Challenge: New Year’s Edition

Raise a glass to the next ToT challenge

Photo by Pineapple Supply Co. on Unsplash

Ring, ring, ring… Who’s there? Oh, it’s just my ToT challengers, ringing in the new year and busting down my door for another chance to play what I’d like to think is the new Medium sensation: the writing (and drinking) game, BJ’s This or That.

***Shameful Plug: It’s also the name of my new pub, check it out here.

Did you think I’d leave you alone for a whole month before I brought back a bit of the ToT-ness? I think not. It’s the new year, a time of rebirth and new habits and …yada, yada, yada…

Forget all that. You know what time it really is?

Photo by Malvestida on Unsplash

It’s ToT-friggin-thirty, y’all. And I can say y’all because I live in Texas.

It’s time for us to all freeze up under the strain of our best feet kicking forward and go back to our cozy place, sit in front of our technology of choice, and have a few laughs with our Medium bros and gal pals over some tasteful (or not-so-tasteful) queries.

December was immense for BJ’s ToT.

We gathered. We wrote. We got to know each other. We invited our besties to play along. We made a bit of that cash money on the way down the ToT rabbit hole. What do you all say we all do it again?

For those of you who didn’t do the last ToT prompt, here’s how to play:

  1. Copy and paste this list of questions into an article entitled something like: “BJ’s This or That New Year’s Challenge”.
  2. Answer all 20 questions. Try to pick just one! Don’t be that person who chooses the hideous answers of “neither” or “both”.
  3. Publish the article. Please tag me — Brett Jenae Tomlin, the @ symbol then “theanxiousenthusiast” — AND this article so I can find your submission and so others who want to play will know how to play along! (Great, but optional: Save it to your Reading List.)

**Note: ToT challenges have all of the fixings for being great pinned articles that show your readers a little bit of your writing style while introducing yourself. About Me articles are so last year. Play ToT instead!

Let’s play…

Photo by Myriam Zilles on Unsplash

This or That?

  1. Resolutions or No Resolutions?
  2. Mountains or Ocean?
  3. Fiction or Nonfiction?
  4. Morning or Night?
  5. Long or Short?
  6. Books or Audio Books?
  7. Coffee or Tea?
  8. Reading or Writing?
  9. Handwritten or Typed?
  10. Sweet or Sarcastic?
  11. Salt or Pepper?
  12. Laptop or Desktop?
  13. Clap or Follow?
  14. Funny or Serious?
  15. Hobby or Career?
  16. Pen Name or No Pen Name?
  17. Winter or Summer?
  18. Airplanes or Automobiles?
  19. Tonic or Soda?
  20. Sunrise or Sunset?

I’m looking forward to reading all of your responses. Happy ToTing!

***Footnote: At this time, my new pub isn’t ripe enough to establish writers so feel free to publish your articles in any pub you wish, just like last time. Be sure to tag me so I can find it! I’ll compile the response articles and post them in the pub. Click follow & subscribe to BJ’s This or That publication so you don’t miss any of the good stuff. Good luck to you all!

I’m Brett Jenae Tomlin, The Anxious Enthusiast.

Follow Me & My Pub: BJ’s This or That

I’m tagging our big, happy, ever-expanding ToT family — let’s keep getting to know each other and growing our gatherings: Katie Michaelson, Valerie Spitaels, Adrienne Beaumont, Sarah Higgins, Rusty Shackleford, pockett dessert, JD Nealey, Keeley Schroder, Patricia Hamlett, Cody Kmochova, The Sturg, Laure Dorsemaine, Celia McKinley, JK Mill, Denise Kendig, Autistic Widower (“AJ”), Ted Czukor, Daniella Montage, Paul Walker, Alex Praytor, Tai Le Grice, John Hansen, Gerald Washington, Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles, Blogs by J, Ann Christine Tabaka, Kelley Murphy, Penelope Mayfield, JennX, Suzanne Mun, kasey sparks, Shereen Bingham, Sharing Randomly, Judy Walker, Marta Henriques, Dr. Gabriella Korosi, and Crystal Guthrie.

If you love, love, love my writing and want to shout out, “You get it, anxious girl!” You can contribute to my cookbook collection here or join Medium to put your own stamp on the web and the world. I get a little love if you use my link ^^

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