Resistance
It seems that I’m actively resisting writing at this point. I just spent the last hour primping in front of the mirror in the bathroom, playing with my hair, and making faces at myself. I found a very interesting face I can make by sucking in my upper lip and sticking my jaw out. I’m pretty sure that doesn’t help me with my writing though.
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Clarion Write-a-Thon Week Four
Erm…could we just pretend that Week Four didn’t happen? Because that would be a good explanation for all those zeroes in my running word count. All I can say is “Ouch.” Really. Last week pretty much kicked my rear end.
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Kiss Me
No, no, no, this isn’t another crazy bid for more sponsorhip money. Every week of the Write-a-thon, Clarion gives us writers a new challenge. For Week 2, we were tasked with creating our own Sponsor Challenge for the sponsor board. I suggested a flash fiction contest for my challenge. Beth Overmyer submitted the winning entry, “Kiss Me.” With her permission, I now present it to you for your reading pleasure:
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Will Sing for Sponsorship
Any of you who know me at all know that I am kind of freaking out right now. I love to sing, but am terrified of singing in public. It took me almost ten years to sing in front of my husband, and three years to do karaoke. But here I am, offering to make my YouTube debut for sponsorship money. Why? If I bring in at least a $1 donation in a creative fashion between now and 11:59 pm Sunday 7/18, I will have an opportunity to win a $50 gift card to a bookstore of my choice — and I really want that gift card. But also because I want Clarion to be around for a long, long time.
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Notice Joy
base image from “summer joy” by dmitry on flickr
I need to blog about something that’s not Clarion right now. Notice Joy has been a pet project of mine for a while now. I decided to start actively noticing joy every day. Are you living a joyful life? Are your days joy-filled? How often do you take time to notice joy? How would your days be different if, every day, you made it a point to?
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Clarion Write-a-Thon Week Three
Every week, Clarion issues a challenge to the Write-a-Thon participants. This week, they’ve challenged us to get creative about finding donors — try something crazy. If I bring in at least a $1 donation in a creative fashion between now and 11:59 pm Sunday 7/19, I will have an opportunity to win a $50 gift card to a bookstore of my choice. (I wonder if I can get a gift card for Half Price Books? Do you know how much damage I could do with $50 at that store?!)
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Flash Fiction Sponsor Challenge (Week Two)
This is the beginning of Week 2 of the Clarion UCSD Write-a-Thon. Some of you may have heard of the Clarion writing workshop, which has been running for 42 years and has turned out many bestselling and award-winning writers. Funding has been cut for the program this year, and so Clarion has responded by running a “Write-a-Thon” to ensure that the workshop can continue.
Every week, Clarion issues a challenge to the Write-a-Thon participants. This week’s challenge is for us writers to come up with a challenge for the Sponsor Challenge board, offering a minimum $5 Write-a-Thon donation to the writer who wins the challenge. Since I used to be one of the editors at Flash Me Magazine, I decided to do a flash fiction challenge.
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Clarion Write-a-Thon Week One
Week One of the Clarion UCSD Write-a-Thon ended yesterday and I’m already up to 4,843 words. Considering that my original goal was 9,000 words and I’m over halfway there, I’ve revised my goal up to 40,000. Read more…
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Kimberly Gonzalez
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