Retrenchment Challenge: Are You In?

Ante Up - #AreYouIn?

Content here at MPF has been sparse lately, which is Not A Good Thing.

For the last few months, I've been working on a project at the Day Job that was taking a lot of my creative energy – involved a LOT of technical writing, legal consideration, and… you know what? Doesn't matter. I was busy. Really freaky busy. Yes, yes. I know my Goodreads profile says something about my available time for the last few months.

So now it's time to reclaim some of that time from the sweet, sweet Kindle-powered content consumption, and start plowing that back toward content CREATION.

Had a friend reach out to me today, who wanted to know if I'd been writing. (Well, no, but I really really meant to! Have I told you how busy I am? Did you know I'm editing a science-fiction/fantasy magazine?) And at the end of the conversation, a challenge was extended. Write 1000 words in two days. Yeah, 500 words a day is really not that much compared with say, my regular output during a NaNoWriMo. The upside to this is, 500 words will take me anywhere between 20-30 minutes a day. And if I can't set aside 30 minutes a day to club all distractions in the head and just go find someplace quiet to make the clackety-clack sounds over the keyboard, then I'm not really fooling anyone.

So I'm extending the challenge. Anyone who wants to participate can. If you're a writer, I want you to create 1000 words of fresh content between right now and 11:59:59 Friday the 13th of May (yeah, Friday the 13th. So what?). If you see this, extend the challenge to others over the social network of your choice. Come Saturday, I'll tally the words counted, and we'll update the site accordingly. If you're not a writer, but you have something else that's been bugging you, drop me a line in the comments. Reach out. Stretch. Write. Do some good. And play with it.

 

THE RULES: 
1000 words of fresh, new content. No re-writes or edits. NEW.
Any genre, any field. Doesn't have to be fiction, but that's what I'm shooting for (a second Sinner story).
Bonus Points for using the words "rye bread" in the fiction
report your results – win or lose.
UPDATE: And it has to be something you would not have written otherwise. No assignments, school or work related. Because the whole point is creating despite how busy we are. Or think we are. Or something. And also because I Am A Nitpicky So-And-So.

No one's keeping track of your success but you. Maybe that's part of the problem. Time to ante up.

Are You In?