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Announcing the 20 Days of Chill Writing Challenge

November 21, 2014

One thing I’ve missed over the past several months in blogging is interaction. For a few months, my posts were sporadic and I haven’t visited as many blogs as I usually do.

I’m trying to amend that.

One way to do that is to be part of challenges. For the past few years, I took part in a once-per-year challenge. The goal was simple – a post per day for a full month. Each day, there was a linkup. Most participants visited and comments on everybody’s posts. It was interactive and fun.

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Last year, however, was the final year the challenge was being held. It stinks, just because it was so fun and I always enjoyed the people who took part in it.

The concept of the challenge was pretty easy. A post gave the dates and the themes. Each day, you wrote a post with the theme in mind. You then went to the main site, commented on their post (of course!) and linked yours. Then people would be visiting and commenting throughout the day. Lots of fun!

As for the themes? They differed. Some were easy, some hard, some way out there, and some straight to the point. Not everybody did all of the themes. Some did all of them. It all depended on the blog and the person.

That’s what made it fun, though.

But even more fun was the community, the comments, the interaction and everything else. I found some great blogs through this challenge and found some good blogging friends.

One of the fun parts, too, was the bloggers submitting themes to be considered. This way, it truly was a community.

So, I’ve decided to try and run one of these, too. And I’m reaching out to the Northeast Bloggers Network to hope you’ll join me. It’s my hope you’ll want to post most days, but please – even if it’s just a small part of your post – try and have the theme somewhere. This isn’t just a linkup so people can put their post somewhere else – it’s a challenge.

Here’s the deal with the challenge – and in the spirit of the former writing challenge I was a member of, there are no real rules (outside of somehow making the theme part of your post, and making sure when you link up it’s to the direct pot, not just your website!)

What’s that mean?

It means there are no length requirements. No style requirements. You don’t have to post each day. Be part of it when you can, and hopefully that means for the full challenge.

The themes/prompts are there to help guide you. Have fun with them. Be creative with your writing. Interpret as you see fit. Fiction or fact. All up to you.

With that, welcome to the 20 Days of Chill Writing Challenge!

This challenge will be held during January, on weekdays beginning on Jan. 5.

So there will be no weekends for the challenge, just Monday-Friday. That means the dates will be:

  • January 5-9
  • January 12-16
  • January 19-23
  • January 26-30

I’ll schedule my posts to be up by 6 a.m. EST each day. I would encourage each of you to check back throughout the day and visit others blogs. I believe you’ll all be pleasantly surprised at how fun this can be and how many interesting posts will hopefully be there.

At this point, I am calling on all of you for theme ideas. I’ll leave this open for 2-3 weeks, and then randomly select 20. All of them will be announced ahead of time, so you can plan accordingly.

There is (hopefully) a Google form attached here (at the bottom of the post) for you to fill out to give some ideas for themes. Conversely, feel free to post them in the comments here as I will keep an eye on this.

On December 18, I will have a post with the dates and themes as well as anything else needed.

Side note – last year, I created a t-shirt through TeeSpring for the challenge. I’ll do that again this year. They do good work and each person who wants one buys it through the website themselves. It’s a campaign, though, so we’ll need to get a certain amount for it to happen. Hopefully, that will work. My plan will be to launch it about a week before the challenge starts and keep it live for three weeks. The logo on this page will be on the shirt. I just need to come up with what color to use for the shirt!

I hope you all will consider this fun challenge. Tell your blogging friends. Let’s make it a good one! The 20 Days of Chill!

Feel free to leave a comment, or e-mail P.J. at hoohaablog [at] gmail.com. Also, please “Like” HooHaa Blog on Facebook!

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  1. Jamie G says

    November 21, 2014

    I really love this concept, I can’t wait to participate!
    Jamie G recently posted..15 Thanksgiving Sides to Wow a Crowd!My Profile

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    • P.J. says

      November 24, 2014

      Thanks for joining and good luck with filling each day!

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  2. Paul Myers says

    November 21, 2014

    OK. Color me intrigued. I just sent five suggestions for themes, most of them are probably pretty lame, but they’re there.
    Paul Myers recently posted..John Muir camping trip – Part 1My Profile

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    • P.J. says

      November 24, 2014

      Paul, hope to see you join up. It’s, hopefully, going to be fun. There will be some straight-forward themes as well as some off-the-wall ones. But in the end, I hope people have fun with it as that’s what it’s really all about!

      Reply
  3. Tami Von Zalez says

    November 22, 2014

    I’m in! Tell me ain’t true that the WWFC challenge is kaput (is that the one you are referring to?)

    I’ve given your challenge a mention in my latest post.
    Tami Von Zalez recently posted..Can I get a thrift, thrift?My Profile

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    • P.J. says

      November 22, 2014

      Sad to say it’s true, Tami. Nicky told me last year that after the last one, it was all done. 🙁

      I truly enjoyed it, so hoping we can get enough people for this one to make it fun. 🙂

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      • Tami Von Zalez says

        November 22, 2014

        I was afraid of that. I so adore Nicky. I will really miss that challenge. I laughed so hard sometimes my sides hurt.

        Anyhoo, I created a Pinterest board for your challenge and linked back to your post.
        Tami Von Zalez recently posted..Can I get a thrift, thrift?My Profile

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        • P.J. says

          November 24, 2014

          Me as well … but I knew I really wanted to see something like this continue, so I went with this version. Hopefully some of the old crew will wander over and join up. I am hoping to e-mail some of them over this long holiday weekend to let them know about it.

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  4. injaynesworld says

    November 27, 2014

    Thanks for picking up the baton on this, PJ. I always looked forward to connecting with everyone again on that challenge. Count me in for at least a few. I submitted some ideas.

    I’ll badger some of the gang to participate.

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  5. Linda says

    November 27, 2014

    P.J., thanks for taking this on. I did not know that WWFC (Nicky) was not going to do this again. So sad, but I’m glad that you are keeping this alive. You can count me in. Of the past 3 challenges, I had perfect attendance. I hope I can keep that going. I’ll think on some topics and come back and submit them.

    I had gotten slack in posting and have picked back up again, but the traffic isn’t what it used to be. Maybe this will give us all a boost.
    Linda recently posted..Happy ThanksgivingMy Profile

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  6. Katherine says

    November 27, 2014

    I’m in!

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