Juiced On Writing

My Writing Fears

1. I’m a rubbish writer
2. I’m a good writer, but will never be recognised
3. I won’t complete a writing project

The above is in response to an exercise challenged at the Robust Writing Blog, but originated at 22 Words. com, a site that does this all the time. Can you write a blog post containing only 22 words (title not counted)?

Nick Usborne is currently welcoming opinions as he writes a new book entitled, ‘Popcorn Content – Irresistable short content. Perfect for sharing.’ He uses the type of content you find on micro-blogging social network, Twitter as a prime example. You will see some more twitter challenges for writers documented for you below. Suffice to say, I like the concept of popcorn writing – irresistable short content.

Want some more Bevity Writing challenges?

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• Write a story on one Twitter message – you have 140 characters only. Last May, Copyblogger Brian Clark run this challenge as a contest. Colleen Lindsay on the Swivet blog ran a similar contest to define your novel’s query in Twitter-style in January this year.
• Maurilio Amorim talks about Twitterising his life in 140 character posts. But he takes it one step forward in this blog post, by ensuring each of his paragraphs are only 140 characters long also. There’s your challenge then – write a blog post containing paragraphs of only 140 characters.
• Take it to the extreme – write your story in exactly 140 characters. On Twitter these exact character counts are called ‘twooshes’.
• Write a story using only six words. Six Word Stories will let you submit these.
• Write a memoir / epitaph in only six words. Smith Magazine’s Six-Word Memoirs will let you submit these. And you may find yourself published in one of the Six-Word Memoir books.
• Describe 2008 in just six words, a challenge by Eugene Kane on the Journal Sentinel.
• Write Your Story as a haiku in the accepted traditional format – three lines with 5,7,5 syllables respectively.
• Originally from Rhett Soveran on the closed Epiblogger, came the suggestion to do all your status updates on Facebook as a metaphor eg. Rhett is a well-groomed eyebrow.
• Write a novel in 12 words or less – a challenge in 2007 by On the Media, during NaNoWriMo.

Credit: Popcorn photo – Darren Hester.

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