Group Writing Project: My Love Affair With Writing

February 14, 2008 · by Joanna Paterson · in

We’re taking leaps and bounds with our writing at Confident Writing this month, which means it just has to be time for another group writing project.

Group writing projects can be a great way to stretch our blog writing muscles.

Taking part can be an easy and effective way to:

  • raise your profile
  • meet other bloggers
  • get links, trackbacks and comments
  • generate ideas for new topics
  • experiment and have some fun

Taking my inspiration from Valentine’s Day and the timeless theme of love… the challenge is to write about:

My Love Affair With Writing

I’m hoping this won’t need much further explanation…

You can write straight or serious, happy or sad, short or long (well not too long, we are talking a blog post here!)

It might be a love affair that’s lasted many years, a brief flame of passion or the heartbreak of unrequited love.

Maybe you’re at the start of a new relationship with your words, or looking back on lifetime of fulfilled writing.

It’s up to you.

You don’t need to be a “writer” to join in

I know that many of you love to write, want to write, long to write regardless of whether or not you think of yourselves as “writers”. This group writing project is for everyone, whatever label you give yourself or others give you.

Forget the labels. Forget the definitions.

Just think about the act of putting pen to paper. Of dreaming up sweet phrases in your mind. Of moving your hand, quietly, insistently, across the page.

And write about that.

To take part all you need to do is:

  • Write (or otherwise create) a blog post on the subject of My Love Affair With Writing
  • Post your piece by midnight on 28th February (in your time zone)
  • Tag it “my love affair with writing” to help me keep track of the entries
  • Link back to this post (to help me keep track of the entries)
  • Keep it within the boundaries of decency :-)

In return you’ll get:

  • A link to your piece when I publish the round up (in early March)
  • The chance to connect up with other participating bloggers and writers
  • The opportunity to write about writing (bliss)

I’m also offering a prize (a book, what else?) based on the entirely subjective criterion of which entry I love the most.

It’s Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down The Bones, a book to strengthen or inspire a lifelong love affair with writing.

If you’ve already got the book it’s a chance to give it to someone you love, who loves to write or whose writing you love.

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