7/4/2023 0 Comments Writing challenge![]() ![]() You and your partner are matched for the whole month, with new partners reassigned each month. Within the first few days of each month, I match partners mostly at random, after making sure that they don’t already know each other or work in the same field or at the same institution to insure that they might not be working on projects that put them in any competition with each other. ![]() Just tell me there or email me, if you prefer. On the first day of the new Writing Challenge, I’ll use Facebook to ask everyone if they would like a writing accountability partner. And you can request to be paired with an accountability partner from the group. If you like seeing your daily writing total add up, you can check in with our Google Sheet, an online spreadsheet where you can self-report (using your real name, initials, or a pseudonym) your daily writing progress and see how your efforts are comparing to others in the group. In addition to regular email check-ins, you can participate in our secret Facebook group, where writers share inspiration and advice, ask questions, and support each other. How does the AGT Writing Challenge support my writing? If you send your writing as an attachment, I don’t open it except to do a word count if you’ve not included a word count in the subject line. If you send your writing within the body of an email, I’ll see the first few lines when I open the document, but I don’t read it. The AGT Writing Challenge is a good opportunity to work on writing that you might avoid otherwise–a spot in your novel where you are stuck, an academic article that has been languishing, or a short story that you think could be good if you’d just revise it. Some folks work on one project the entire time they participate, while others switch between ongoing projects on a regular basis–sometimes even within the same day. What can I write about? Can I work on more than one writing project? Our writers are working on novels, short stories, academic articles, academic books, dissertations, blogs, religious devotionals, memoirs, and more. Some people are working on professional projects, while others are working on personal ones. Participants include professional writers, those writing after a hiatus, and people coming to writing for the first time. Each challenge runs for four or five weeks–until the next month’s first Sunday. After the first Tuesday of a month, it’s too late to join for that month, so you’d need to join in the following month. While you can email me your intention to join and put in your $20 at any point, each AGT Writing Challenge begins on the first Sunday of every month. You may join up to two days after the start date but those two missed days will count as your skip days that week, so you’d need to write Tues-Sat of that first week to meet your goal. Send any other information you think is important and any questions you might have. If you’d like an accountability partner, please let me know in email. ![]() If you miss more than 2 days, you lose the full $20.įorfeited funds go into a kitty that funds a small monthly prize, drawn at random from among those who meet their 20-day goal occasional random drawings among participants for other contests and administrative costs associated with organizing the AGT Writing Challenge.įrom the email address you prefer to use in our correspondence, email me with your name, the email address associated with your Facebook profile (so I can add you to our Facebook group), and how you plan on paying (PayPal or check). Each day that you write, you send your writing to me at with the word count in the subject line. If you meet your goal for the month, you get your $20 back. You write 5/7 days each week, at least 400 words. (Just email me at to ask where to send it.) You buy in to the challenge with $20, payable via PayPal or, if you prefer, check. If you meet your goals, you will write at least 8,000 words in a month with 4 weeks and 10,000 words in a month with 5 weeks. We start on the FIRST Sunday of every month, and since there are no breaks between monthly challenges, we are usually ending in the following month. Whether you are already a fantastic, productive writer who can’t wait to get to your manuscript each day or you are stuck or struggling with half-done manuscripts, a backlog of pieces in your “to-revise” pile, and a feeling of dread when you open your computer each day, you are invited to join the monthly AGT Writing Challenge.Įach month, participants agree to write at least 400 words per day for 5 days each 7 day week, Sunday through Saturday. ![]()
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