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31 Days, 31 Minutes, 32 Winners, 1 Prize!
Hi all, In the first 31 days of this year, 42 people signed up to write for at least 31 minutes every day. For those of you who tried but didn’t make it daily, the trying is just as important sometimes. Judging from the comments and the emails, most of you still had a great…
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Congratulations!
Dear 31-minute challenge participants! We did it! You did it! Dear winners — I am so proud of you!!! Or — maybe you almost did it! I am proud of you anyway. What matters is, all month long, all of you’ve been writing away! Pushing yourselves, exploring, keeping your commitment to something that matters to…
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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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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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