I took the 21 Moments Writing Challenge myself last spring and was somewhat shocked by how empowering it was even though I did not complete the challenge perfectly.
The challenge woke me up. I felt more present each day to my thoughts, feelings, and responses to life all around me.
A few months later, as I was making submissions for fall publications, I started to realize that my writing had changed. It had become more personal, more passionate, more in line with topics I care deeply about.
Apparently I had things I needed to say and the 21 Moments Writing challenge was going to help me say them, only more eloquently than they might have come tumbling out otherwise, and certainly more clearly than what I wrote wrote hurriedly during the challenge.
As writers, we sometimes forget the transformative power of writing explicitly for ourselves. This is easy to do and understandable to feel with all the pressures and distractions of modern life.
And yet, in just 21 days of practicing my own challenge–the one that I created–I took my writing to a whole new level. And now I am seeing the results and I am pleased.
This is how I know that the challenge not only works, but is powerful and satisfaction-deepening. I’m so glad I took it and I can’t wait to take it again. There is no doubt that it also took me to a new level of permission with the three e-books I am currently launching.
In the meantime, here are more ways to use the challenge in the words of those who have already taken it. See if any of these ways appeals to your creative itch, and then scratch it, quick! Because this is the last round until January 1st.
- As inspiration to write better during the first 21 days of NaNoWriMo.
- To help you remember why they call it “great literature.”
- To motivate a young adult who aspires to become an author some day or just likes to write.
- To get your creating writing groove back.
- To discover all the possibilities for writing opportunities in your daily life.
- To write more because you are inspired, not because of stress or pressure.
- To feel like a real writer for 21 days.
- To be in the company of other real writers, and all be working on your own stuff.
- To write whatever you want to write for a change.
- To write cathartically, if this is what you feel you need to do this month.
- To help your imagination come alive.
- As a substitute for the “Morning Pages” you used to write.
- To break out of a writing slump.
- To tackle the short forms of writing that make up the long forms of writing.
- To reign in your wandering mind and focus.
- To find a present in your inbox every morning.
- To play around with genres or at least not care about them temporarily.
- To fill your journal with potent writing starts.
- To get the ideas in your head down on the page.
- To help get your through a longer writing project.
- To re-vivify your writing voice.
- To do the real writing, not just the warm-up.
- To find and hit your writing stride.
- To remember all the things you want to write about some day.
- To painlessly establish a daily writing routine.
- To recapture the sheer joy and pleasure of writing again.
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