AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: It's up to you how you want to use your writing time this week. Click through for ideas.
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 219: Wild Card Week Day 5
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: It's up to you how you want to use your writing time this week. Click through for ideas.
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 218: Wild Card Week Day 4
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: It's up to you how you want to use your writing time this week. Click through for ideas.
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 217: Wild Card Week Day 3
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: It's up to you how you want to use your writing time this week. Click through for ideas.
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 216: Wild Card Week Day 2
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: It's up to you how you want to use your writing time this week. Click through for ideas.
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 215: Wild Card Week Day 1
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: It's up to you how you want to use your writing time this week. Click through for ideas.
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 213: Wild Card Day
Today, write about something you missed earlier in the week. Or pick something from your timeline and write about it.
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 212: Six Word Memoir
Write a statement that describes your life using exactly six words. (Hemingway famously claimed he could write a novel using only six words: "For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.") More examples: "How did I get so lucky?" "Not quite what I had planned." Here's one of mine: "The best stories are hard won." If you have time left, you can explain further what it means. Feel like sharing? Post yours in comments below!
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 211: Community
Have you been involved with some kind of service to your community? How has that affected you and what have you learned from your experiences with your community?
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 210: What Amuses You?
Write about your sense of humor. Who in your family influenced you in that way? What kinds of things do you find funny? What is the funniest thing you've ever witnessed?
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 209: Food
What are your attitudes about food? How did your family influence your eating habits, and have they changed over time? Do you have any fears or frustrations with the issue of food?
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 208: Famous Person
If you could have a conversation with a famous person or historical figure (alive or deceased), who would it be and what questions would you ask them?
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 206: Wild Card Day
Today, write about something you missed earlier in the week. Or pick something from your timeline and write about it.
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 205: Great people
Who do you think is a truly great person, and why? How has this person influenced your life, either directly or indirectly?
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 204: Travel
How has travel played a role in your life? Write about a memorable travel experience.
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 203: Addiction
Have you ever had a problem with substance abuse or addiction, or been close to someone who has? How has it affected your life?
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 202: Weakness
What do you feel are your greatest weaknesses? Have they changed or improved over time? How have they affected your life?
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 201: Greatest Strengths
Just joined us? Jump in where you are. Don't feel you have to catch up, or to go back and start at the beginning. Just work on today's assignment. For more information about the challenge, read this post.
TODAY'S 15-MINUTE CHALLENGE
How have your spiritual beliefs evolved over your lifetime? Why?
IN A NUTSHELL
- Don't like today's topic? Not everything in the challenge will fit your life or circumstances. Pick something else from the archive, this question list, or write more on something you wrote earlier.
- Don't judge yourself. Don't edit. Just write. You will edit later. Now it's just about getting it down, for your eyes only.
- If you want to keep going after the 15 minutes are up, go for it!
- Have a question or challenge or triumph to share? Feel free to comment below.
Writing Challenge Day 205: Wild Card Day
Today, write about something you missed earlier in the week. Or pick something from your timeline and write about it.
Read moreWriting Challenge Day 204: Spiritual Evolution
How have your spiritual beliefs evolved over your lifetime? Why?
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We are so excited to be back at RootsTech live this year! Come by and see the Pictures and Stories booth (#1609) and see some of the many new books we’ve helped our clients create. Alison is giving two in-person classes: The Seven Deadly Sins of Building a Digital Archive, and Making a Genealogy Story Book. Hope to see you there!