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Poetry Marathon and a writing tool I use

How are you doing today?
In this newsletter is a challenge and a tool
Challenge
If you like poetry and would love a writing challenge you should sign up for The Poetry Marathon Challenge.
The goal is to write a poem every hour.
The challenge broken down into two
Full Marathon 24 hours
Half marathon 12 hours
Check the poetry marathon website for more details.
I will be participating in the challenge this year.
This year’s Poetry Marathon is fast approaching. It officially starts on September…

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Writing Goals vs Systems vs Projects, Update and Writing Prompts

Update
When you are writing consistently everyday. There are days it feels like you are not moving forward. It looks like it’s better not to write. I am experiencing those days.
This what progress looks like
As regards submitting for feedback I will timeblock time for that else I will never do it.
Writing Goals,Systems and Projects
I used to think of goals and talked about them as a young writer.
There is nothing wrong with that
Year after year I set my new year’s resolution . It felt like…

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Why I failed Writing? Writing Prompts and A Quote for the week

The feeling of showing up and Starting Small
After trying and failing to write consistently I figured out some of the mistakes I made when trying to build a writing routine.
I will share them with you in this newsletter.
Starting Too Big
One of the mistakes I made was trying to write in big hours because when I read interviews of famous writers and all the people I admired . They said they wrote for 3 to 6 hours a day.
When I started building up from small.
I saw what the problem was.
Showing…

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Lessons after 30 days of writing. Quinthirty and the missing link

My phone was faulty on Sunday. For the day I thought I would go phone less. But it was a minor software issue. The phone repairer fixed it by flashing my phone.
Lessons after 30 days of writing?
Writing for thirty minutes everyday is really good. I have learnt a lot and made some mistakes.
After thirty days I wrote a total of 14,580 words . Well the word count was not part of the goal. But it is a great bonus.
How many days did you miss?
I missed a total of seven days.
Doing this challenge I…

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3 Mistakes i made learning to write

Are you learning to write on your own?
I have been there . Yes I haven’t figured it out but it would have been faster if not for these mistakes I made.
Over the last five years while learning to write I have made these mistakes that slowed me down and almost discouraged me from ever trying to write.
Mistake 1 Postponing writing until you are good.
While learning to write . Watching videos.
Taking courses I did not write because I felt I should become better before I write.
It is only looking…

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