000 Words Per Day Writing Challenge
10-13-2017, 05:42 AM
Let's start it again! I'll be doing 1k today.
I will be checking my PMs weekly, so you can catch me there. I will not be posting.
Quote: (10-13-2017 06:05 AM)nomadbrah Wrote:
I was trying for 2000 words a day, but that might be a little too ambitious day in and day out.
1000 words is a good goal.
Quote: (10-13-2017 04:53 AM)yankeetravels Wrote:
Yesterday afternoon and last night I got 3800 words done. Kind of slacking for me considering on my best days, I can get around 7K words in.
Quote: (10-13-2017 01:21 PM)Agastya Wrote:
Why don't we post pieces of it up here for critique and motivation? I'm writing a blog about my travels through the Middle East, North Africa, and India. Here's a passage, let me know what you think. It's about me crossing by land from Jordan to Israel.
This desert was different from the others.
We had all traveled through the endless brown plains that bounded the city of Amman, hard, parched fields where nothing grew. Some of us had made the journey to Kerak, past wastelands populated only by goats. This desert was devoid even of those. South of Al-Maghtas, where Jesus was baptized, beyond the simmering pan of the Dead Sea, this was the Negev, an expanse without rocks, without trees, its sand bleached to the hue of bones.
The heat, when we stepped outside, hit us like a blow. We’d all felt the summer heat of Jordan, from the cruelty of an Amman morning to the scalding sand of the Dead Sea. But here, in the Negev, the sun bore down on us with a special ferocity. As if to dissuade us from going any further. As if the Israelis had commissioned it to defend its southern border, where, from the Wadi Araba crossing, crowds of Palestinians poured in on a daily basis.
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The line was less a line than a throng, a seething, pulsating mass of humanity.
I had never seen people like these before. They were nothing like their cousins, the serene Jordanians. They didn’t have the reptilian stares of the Hezbollah fighters I would later encounter in Lebanon. Bedecked in dirty robes, these Palestinians could have come straight out of the Old Testament. The men were built like pit bulls, gnarled, squat, with mouthfuls of black teeth; the women were unilaterally old, regardless of age, their faces crumpled with wrinkles.
Prowling the line were two men. One wore a pink polo and looked like an Abercrombie model. He wouldn’t have looked out of place in any Southern California beach town. The other was short and Slavic. His eyes were pieces of ice, and belted to his jeans was a Sig Sauer the size of my face.
Even then, I found it telling that two Mossad agents were enough to a cow a crowd of Palestinians several hundred strong.
Quote: (10-13-2017 05:42 AM)Fortis Wrote:
Let's start it again! I'll be doing 1k today.
Quote: (10-13-2017 06:05 AM)nomadbrah Wrote:
I was trying for 2000 words a day, but that might be a little too ambitious day in and day out.
1000 words is a good goal.
Quote: (10-14-2017 03:37 AM)lookslikeit Wrote:
Do you guys publish what you write, or just do it as an exercise?
Quote: (10-15-2017 12:24 PM)Spaniard88 Wrote:
Great thread, BB, I'm on board, just woke up a bit ago, starting today let's see how far I can get a streak going.
Quote: (10-22-2017 08:06 PM)Beyond Borders Wrote:
Still been going at it. Just stopped announcing my word counts here because I found another forum with a thread for that specific purpose and it's a lot more active. Any of you guys who jumped back on the challenge last week still going strong?
Quote: (10-22-2017 08:29 PM)Spaniard88 Wrote:
Quote: (10-22-2017 08:06 PM)Beyond Borders Wrote:
Still been going at it. Just stopped announcing my word counts here because I found another forum with a thread for that specific purpose and it's a lot more active. Any of you guys who jumped back on the challenge last week still going strong?
I wrote seven thousand!
Quote: (10-22-2017 08:48 PM)Space Cowboy Wrote:
I used to journal for a bit but stopped when work got too hectic. I'd like to restart. What do you all write about? Your day? Philosophy? Current events? Fiction?
Quote: (10-22-2017 08:48 PM)Space Cowboy Wrote:
I used to journal for a bit but stopped when work got too hectic. I'd like to restart. What do you all write about? Your day? Philosophy? Current events? Fiction?
Quote: (10-22-2017 11:50 PM)Spaniard88 Wrote:
Quote: (10-22-2017 08:48 PM)Space Cowboy Wrote:
I used to journal for a bit but stopped when work got too hectic. I'd like to restart. What do you all write about? Your day? Philosophy? Current events? Fiction?
Mine's nonfiction and it's my own content, but I'll keep the specifics out of this thread.
This thread is awesome.