The Writer's Diary Challenge

[Blu]

So I thought I would start a little challenge. I was not sure if this was more appropriate on this Thread or on the Diary Thread so if anyone knows just shoot me a PM or if an admin sees it just move it. Basically, while I was perusing Pinterest, I stumbled across this little picture with a little challenge. I thought it would be fun if we all tried the challenge. Below is a link to the picture with the challenge on it but I will also copy and paste the challenge in a quotation below.

Happy Writing!

Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. PIck one incident and write it up as a brief vignette. Give it colour, include quoates and dialogue, shape it like a story with a begining, middle, and end -- as if it were a short story or an episode in a novel.

Challenge Picture

[Kristykimmy]

This would be fun, but I think we would need a subboard in the diaries thread so as not to clog up the actual diaries.

Tags the mods of the board to see what their stance is. Ginz ❤ Gelquie

[Ginz ❤]

That does sound fun! I think where you put it depends on how you envision the challenge. Is it meant to be taken as a writer's challenge, where people share their vignettes with each other in the same thread, and possibly even get some feedback on them? Or are you just introducing the challenge as a journaling exercise people can do as a prompt on their own diary threads? (Or even in a special thread, but with the purpose of sharing the events more so than the actual writing)

If it's the former, I think this thread here is absolutely perfect! If it's the latter, then maybe diaries would be better suited for it. But I feel diaries are more about getting close and personal, so if the challenge is more about improving your writing, I would feel it a little out of place there.

[Blu]

Dec 3, 2014 19:25:04 GMT -5 Ginz ❤ said:

That does sound fun! I think where you put it depends on how you envision the challenge. Is it meant to be taken as a writer's challenge, where people share their vignettes with each other in the same thread, and possibly even get some feedback on them? Or are you just introducing the challenge as a journaling exercise people can do as a prompt on their own diary threads? (Or even in a special thread, but with the purpose of sharing the events more so than the actual writing)

If it's the former, I think this thread here is absolutely perfect! If it's the latter, then maybe diaries would be better suited for it. But I feel diaries are more about getting close and personal, so if the challenge is more about improving your writing, I would feel it a little out of place there.

I pictured it much more as a writing excercise and that is why I placed it under the writers workshop. The event from the day is just a prompt.

I like the idea of adding critiism and what not to the journaling process. Just if anyone is bored and wants to reply to someone's post. I also decided last night these posts would be best in a spoiler so that anyone with a long post doesn't have to feel bad for taking up most of a page and whatnot.

[Blu]

Since no one has really started with this I am going to try the challenge first. I figured someone else would start but I guess not. My little blurb is in the spoiler.

SPOILER: Click to show

The cursor blinked on my laptop screen, antagonizing my eyes further. Groaning, I lift my glasses off my face and rub my eyes, grease smearing over my fingers tips from my eyelids. The unfinished research paper stared at me once more. Pirates, Roanoke, Privateers, Mysterious disappearances -- all the things I wanted to discuss in my paper but could not find the words I needed. Simple words like "intentions" and "negative perspectives" but on the page these simplistic words turned into four lines of confusing fluff. Why was it that I could verbalize my thoughts, but I could not write them? How was it that this shift occurred? Usually I could write better than I could verbalize my thoughts.
My fingers brush over the keyboard once more, small specks of grim and food sticking to my fingers. I delete four lines, write another six, then delete those lines again. If only I could procrastinate this project a little longer. I loved learning about the Elizabethan pirates, but I hated creating original scholarship to contribute to their historical significance. I rubbed my eyes once more and once more when I opened them, that cursed line blinked on my screen, waiting for letters to be typed.