Writing Challenges

I love writing challenges and writing prompts, and ideas. And being a member of a writing group is great because the group offers opportunities to take your writing further, dig deeper, expand further, and tighten it all up better. Writing alone is necessary at times, but being involved with others who you trust and value, that is awesome.

So something awesome is going to happen in January, 2021, that is writing related. One of the members of my writing group, who has been reading small bits of the Cosy Murder Mystery novel I’m currently writing, has decided she would like to see bigger snippets of the work at a time, and more regularly.

Michelle, my lovely reader/fellow writing group member, in fact wants me to send her 500 words of my novel, every single day of January, and then, after that, she and I will get together to see what I have, what it’s heading, what still needs to happen with it, and so on. I value Michelle’s knowledge, and am looking forward to what she says, for sure.

But it gets even better, because Michelle has let me know she’s interested in taking part in this challenge herself, and if so would send me 500 words of her current work in progress! Woo hoo, we are cooking with gas on this one!

This is why being involved with other writers can be so awesome – we understand the problems, and rejoice when things go the way you want them to go! It’s nice for instance if your mum likes your writing, but having an intelligent reader/writer giving considered feedback is potentially way more useful.

So many thanks to my lovely friend Michelle we can make magical things happen together!