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Writing Reflections, A Guest Post
It is my pleasure to welcome yet another guest, Jim Stone, a 31-minute challenge participant with some thoughts to offer on reasons for writing and the effect the opening of the writing valve has had on him during this month. Holding a mirror up to another mirror and tilting it just right will surprise you…
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31-Minute Challenge: A Family Affair? A Guest Post
Today I am pleased to share another guest post from Dori Stone, a writer and enthusiastic participant of this month’s 31-minute challenge. I have seen it for myself and should have warned you: writing can be a highly contagious activity! 🙂 When I started the 31-day 31-minute challenge, excitement and determination filled me. I hoped to…
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31 Minutes? Try 93! A Guest Post
This week I’d like to welcome my writing friend, the delightful Jody Bilbo Staton, an overachieving YA and middle-grade novelist, with a guest post about her ambitiously vigorous trek through the month. Katia’s 31-minute challenge came at the perfect time, both as a welcome substitute for the standard (and usually vaguely worded) New Year’s resolutions, and as…
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Day 8 of the 31-minute Challenge: Choosing, A Guest Post
Today, I am excited to welcome a Pennsylvania writer for young people Wendy Greenley, who happens to be another 31-minute challenge participant. Read below to see how Wendy uses her 31-minutes each day, then visit her website at http://www.wendygreenley.com/ I’m Giving Katia Raina 31! Actually, I’m giving it to myself. What is it? It’s a…
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Day 6 of the 31-Minute Challenge: Learn From Your Dog
My three-something-year-old Brittany, Lucky, is a lovely, charming girl with quite impressive dog manners. Ask anyone in the neighborhood. 🙂 Still, like any dog she knows what she wants when she wants it. If you own a puppy of any breed, age or temperament, then you know perfectly well what a term “dogged” means. Dogged…
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Day 4 of the 31-Minute Challenge: Getting Back In The Groove, A Guest Post
Please welcome Dori Stone, who has been writing for years on a daily basis, but then got off track — that is, until now. Dori started on the 31-minute challenge early and is sharing what her journey has been like so far. What do a wedding, a new grandbaby, a retired husband, aging parents, Facebook…
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Happy New Year — and Happy First Day!
Dear challengers! (or, should it be “challengees?”) 🙂 This is just a quick note to say the first day of the 31-minute challenge is rapidly coming to a close! I am hoping you got your 31 minutes in today. If not, you better hurry! I am loving 2013 already, aren’t you? 🙂 Rooting for all of…
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More 31-Minute Challenge FAQs
Here is a follow-up to the 31-minute challenge FAQs, which I have posted last week here. If you haven’t read the basics on it yet, the month-long 31-minute challenge will start on January 1, 2013 and last 31 days. Meant for anyone with a dream they’d like to work toward, the challenge asks the participants…
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The 31-Minute Challenge FAQ: Getting Ready for January
Between the emails I have received over the last several days, and the comments on my previous post about the 31-minute challenge, we’ve got 18 participants so far — and the month has barely just started. To me this is a wondrous start! 🙂 This post is a summary of sorts, an “FAQ,” and some…
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Gimme 31 for Your Dreams: A Challenge and A Giveaway
Happy December, everyone! Crazy, isn’t it, how the time flies? It seems like just yesterday, the writers of the world were starting on their NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) projects and the picture book people were jotting down the first idea for the PiBoIdMo challenge (a picture book idea per day). And now, just when you…
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