This is a great challenge. I'm going to give it a go. I may not follow all of the prompts, but i will write a 250 word post every day in January. I may go over the word count. I have trouble keeping it short. Thanks for the inspiration.
Day one I looked at my Canva projects to find something to inspire me. I wound up writing 895 words. My husband was tired of being neglected and watching TV so after I finished writing it I played cards with him. I didn't put my post up on Medium yet because I didn't want to just throw it up there. I've found that my self published posts get a lot less views than those one of the publishers accepts from me. This is where posting daily has a snag for me. If I send it to one of the Medium publishers it may not go up for a day or two. If I can figure out how to write those short and sweet posts of 250 words I can throw them up on my site myself. Darn, I struggle to write short. 😖 I'm writing daily no matter what, and that's what counts. Thanks for the inspiration.
I saved each smaller post in a list on Medium which people can find on my profile and put a link to the list in each post to help people track through the series.
I took your advice and made my story a three part series. I tried to tag you with it, but I keep getting a Jack Heimbigner pop up. What is your Medium tag? I didn't think it was you because I'm not following him.
This is perfect! Will help me come up with ideas to write about. So you recommend that in my Medium articles I link back to my Substack to capture emails?
A little behind the 8 ball with the challenge but I will catch up. I just came across this challenge today. Here is my list: Read stories on the list “Writing Challenge 2024” on Medium: https://medium.com/@melissafougere/list/57b46bc4f663
I would just keep going down the list. If you miss day four, then on day five so prompt four. That’s way you don’t get hung up on picking/choosing topics which can keep people from writing.
The first prompt for Bloganuary is What Are Your Challenges? (Goes along nicely with yours.)
I love it when things work well together like that!
Love this challenge JR, just shared it in the HQ and will shared it in my newsletter tomorrow.
Thanks Jamie! My hope is that it will help give people momentum for January that can help them take off for the entire year!
Great challenge, nothing like starting the year off strong!
Exactly!
This is a great challenge. I'm going to give it a go. I may not follow all of the prompts, but i will write a 250 word post every day in January. I may go over the word count. I have trouble keeping it short. Thanks for the inspiration.
For sure! It’s okay to go over, but don’t wear yourself out either. That’s why I think short is great!
Day one I looked at my Canva projects to find something to inspire me. I wound up writing 895 words. My husband was tired of being neglected and watching TV so after I finished writing it I played cards with him. I didn't put my post up on Medium yet because I didn't want to just throw it up there. I've found that my self published posts get a lot less views than those one of the publishers accepts from me. This is where posting daily has a snag for me. If I send it to one of the Medium publishers it may not go up for a day or two. If I can figure out how to write those short and sweet posts of 250 words I can throw them up on my site myself. Darn, I struggle to write short. 😖 I'm writing daily no matter what, and that's what counts. Thanks for the inspiration.
You could write the longer post first, and then decide how you could break it up into two or three shorter posts and turn them into a series of posts?
A series? 🤔 Now there's something I never thought of. I'm going to have to work on that.
Yep, that might be just what you need! Here is an example of a series that could have been one entire post, but I broke it down into bite sized posts:
https://medium.com/@jackheimbigner/list/how-to-start-an-online-business-business-on-the-weekend-36c449012d08
I saved each smaller post in a list on Medium which people can find on my profile and put a link to the list in each post to help people track through the series.
I took your advice and made my story a three part series. I tried to tag you with it, but I keep getting a Jack Heimbigner pop up. What is your Medium tag? I didn't think it was you because I'm not following him.
I'm going to give that a try. Thanks so much for your help. :)
This is perfect! Will help me come up with ideas to write about. So you recommend that in my Medium articles I link back to my Substack to capture emails?
Yep. Substack allows you to capture emails where Medium keeps those from you for themselves with their email sign up.
I’m a little late to the party just seeing the challenge late yesterday. Here is the link to my list and first post. I have a few to catch up on now.
Read stories on the list “Writing Challenge 2024” on Medium: https://medium.com/@melissafougere/list/57b46bc4f663
Followed and read your about me! Love it!
That list is so good for using as a map for your content journey.
Thank you! My hope with it is to help create space to start writing and helping people share themselves while finding their voice in it.
This reminds me of the 31 blog posts that Wordpress inspires in their Bloganuary campaign.
I hadn’t heard of that one. But I’m sure it is a really great challenge too! I think it’s a great way to get started everywhere.
A little behind the 8 ball with the challenge but I will catch up. I just came across this challenge today. Here is my list: Read stories on the list “Writing Challenge 2024” on Medium: https://medium.com/@melissafougere/list/57b46bc4f663
Thank you for this challenge! I might skip a day or two (I already have...), but will try to go on.
https://medium.com/@anya.balen/list/january-2024-writing-challenge-d7e50dcec965
This is a fantastic idea!
So you write on medium, and then share the link to X? Why not just write directly on X? Thank you
I would just keep going down the list. If you miss day four, then on day five so prompt four. That’s way you don’t get hung up on picking/choosing topics which can keep people from writing.