New Writers, Take Part In This Powerful 10-Day Shortform Challenge This November
Yes, it’s possible to boost your success on Medium
Willpower is finite. Motivation comes and goes. Inspiration can strike when you least expect it and leave you high and dry when you need it the most.
So whatever you call it — motivation, willpower, inspiration, your “muse” — you need to regularly nourish and replenish your supply. Mark Manson
Are you familiar with the “Do Something” Principle?
It helps novice writers to get the ball rolling.
You focus on starting, and that’s it.
Some call me ‘Medium Muse’ and I’m here to help you get started to boost your success on Medium.
Do you know what you need?
A writing challenge!
To be more specific:
A 10-Day Shortform Challenge by a pub that welcomes new writers!
7 Reasons For Signing Up For A 10-Day Writing Challenge this November
Writing challenges are popular in the writing community — especially this month, November 2021.
- It’s the Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) my friend and journalist James Garside is participating in.
- Zulie Rane invited the community to write 30 pieces this month.
- I launched my first ‘Online Writing Kickstarter Bootcamp’ where we hit publish on a regular basis and improve our craft.
- Niharikaa Kaur Sodhi started her first pilot called ‘Summit21’ to establish a (daily) writing habit.
Well, there’s a little something for everybody, isn’t it?
Let me give you 7 powerful reasons to participate in a writing challenge this month:
- You meet nice and encouraging people — The writing communities who participate in challenges are uplifting each other and keeping each other accountable to persist throughout the challenge.
- Nobody “wins” and nobody “loses” — The only person you compete against is yourself. If you don’t reach your goals? It’s okay. You’ll still have some great content and data points to work with at the end.
- Practice makes perfect — Did you know that according to science experienced writers use more of their brains than novice writers?
- Kick your muse into high gear — Writing challenges can allow you to explore new ways of writing and to think outside the box.
- Build a writing habit — After the writing challenge is before the challenge. You’ll be more ready than ever to build writing into your life all year long and make writing a priority.
- It’s not a job or a heavy burden. — It’s for fun rather than being competitive. Some challenges can even get you in a playful writing mood and flow state.
- It’s rewarding — You will feel like a brand-new person after you’ve finished that first draft or the whole challenge. When you write, you’re a writer! That’s something to be proud of.
How to participate in the 10-Day Shortform Challenge
You’ve always wanted to try, but life has got in your way.
That’s okay and totally normal.
With a little (and at the moment sick) baby in the house, life gets in my way all.the.time.
This challenge designed by Tom Fenske will help you make your writing a priority.
The 10-Day Shortform Challenge
It helps you to conquer the craft of writing in 10 days.
All you need to know:
- It’s a prompt-a-day challenge designed to help you write more, write better, write smarter.
- Here’s the good news: you don’t have to write 10 long form posts each 3 min+. It’s a short form writing challenge.
short form = 150 words or less
- Tom Fenske, the owner of the popular and trending pub ‘The Shortform’ with 1.6K, designed 10 inspiring prompts for you. Here they are.
You write about different topics and fuel your creativity.
- When you’re already a writer of our pub simply click ‘submit’ and send us your story or stories.
- When you want to become a writer: The Shortform is open to new writers! You can email me and the team with a first draft for the challenge:
My cohort buddies Trisha Dunbar Jameson Steward Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles Nancy Blackman as well as other fellow writers such as Terry L. Cooper are taking part in the challenge.
Final Takeaways
If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you!
This is me hammering on my keyboard:
I’m sure you have a story to tell.
This writing challenge can help you get it out into the world.
You can write your pieces whenever you want! We will publish them in the course of November 2021.
It’s happening this month, new writers.
Take this chance and send us your draft:
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