Month of the Muse: On your marks...

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

On your marks...

Okay, guys, this is the pre-pre-MOTM call. Tell your friends, anyone who might want to join before kickoff, because we start Wednesday. This Wednesday! Waaahooo! And I seriously would love you forever if you want to help with the weekly writing articles; if I don't get some recruits, we're combining the advice column and the pep talk into one. May do it anyway. The first article will go up on Wednesday.

Are you all ready? Do you know what you're going to work on and what your word count goal is? Please remember that all the writing for this challenge must be on a single project to count toward your goal, and 10K is the minimum word count goal. However, also remember that there is no "winning" or "losing"; any writing that you get done during this month is a good thing, and that's the goal of MOTM, to encourage writers to do what they love: write, and be serious about it.

Okay, seriousness out of the way for the time being. If you're like me, you're just itching with excitement. I don't know if I can wait till Wednesday to start my story! But I'm going to because I still have character development to finish up with my heroine, and I want to get some descriptions down.
So, on your marks...

2 comments:

amber colleen said...: *in spongebob voice* I'm ready! I'm ready! I'm ready!!!; September 30, 2008 at 2:11 PM
Anonymous said...: Sorry, I didn't see this until yesterday and then I couldn't connect to this at home. But I do thank you once more, ammelda, for setting this up because I really do need some sort of deadline and discipline and all that to get back to some serious writing or at least transcribing the two journals I have of notes for the book. Fun, Fun!!

Namarie, God bless, Your grateful Piptane :); October 4, 2008 at 1:37 PM

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Welcome to Month of the Muse!

Month of the Muse is a month-long writing challenge much like NaNoWriMo and April Fools. The objective is the same--to write a given number of words in a month--but the goal is to make it a happy medium between the insanity of the one and the extreme laxity of the other. The purpose of this project is not to discount either NaNoWriMo or April Fools in any way, but simply to provide a fun and similar activity for those writers, like myself, who don't have time for NaNoWriMo's intensity right around Thanksgiving and before Christmas, but who still want a taste of the challenge, the race against time.

Month of the Muse begins on October 1 at 12:00 A.M. and ends at the same time on October 31. The objective is to write a minimum of 10000 words, but after that, you set your own word count goal; you can make it as hard or as easy as you like. I hope to provide some sort of downloadable goody for those who reach their goal, but that remains to be seen.

The writing you do for this challenge can be a continuation of something you’ve already started, but you can’t count what you’ve already done, and it must be limited to one project. That project can be anything you like--a novel or novella, an anthology of poetry or short stories, a work of fanfiction, an autobiographical work, etc.--as long as it fits into the category of fiction, poetry, fanfiction, or creative nonfiction. Commentaries and essays don't count.

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There will be one pep talk, one educational writing article, and perhaps one "just for fun" goody per week during October. This project being in its infancy, I can't promise words of wisdom from published authors, only encouragement, one writer to others. If anyone would like to contribute to these articles, pep talks, or fun things, let me know by e-mailing me at gracechild1990@hotmail.com. Tell me a little about your writing experience, and do include a sample article or fun goody for consideration. Articles will be posted on this blog.

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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

On your marks...

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