Write Despite Blog and Writing Challenge

WRITE DESPITE
The write-20-minutes-a-day-for-365-days-come-hell-or-high-water challenge

We are Karen and Cathy, and we’ve decided to work on our newest projects by finally taking the advice of all our writing teachers and our favorite authors. You know, the ones who tell you to “Write every day!”

With this in mind, we’re going to launch a simple and possibly insane project:

We’re Going to Write Every Single Day.

For at Least 20 Minutes.

For One Year.

At least once a week we’ll blog about our progress—how we’re writing, where we’re writing, what obstacles presented themselves to try to keep us from writing. We’ll offer up quotes, tips, links, prompts, and various inspirations to keep the words coming. Check out our resources. Feel free to suggest others. Please.

Follow our blog at: www.writedespite.org. Like our Write Despite page on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter @write_despite. Please pass the word along to others. And see what you can accomplish in 20/365!

At the end of one year, we’ll see if we’ve accumulated anything of worth, if we’ve gotten ourselves into a real writing habit, if we agree that this writing every day thing is, in fact, all it’s cracked up to be.

Sound like a good idea? Want to test your devotion to your craft? Genre doesn’t matter. We invite writers of all stripes—devotees of fiction, poetry, nonfiction—whatever does it for you, works for us. We’re starting January 1, 2013–new year, new opportunities. But you can start whenever you like, and work from there.

So join us! Write along with your own work, draw inspiration, tell us how it’s going.

Bitch, moan, compare notes.

And let’s see what we can do in 20/365.

Gather your ideas and your courage. WRITE DESPITE begins JANUARY 1, 2013!