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April 21, 2013 09:06 PM UTC --
Monday's challenge: write about failure.
Thursday’s challenge: create a post about how badly you want it.
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I’m going to split Greg’s . . .
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April 20, 2013 12:07 AM UTC --
Well, it’s the third Saturday of the month and that means one of you will be guiding us in our writing today.
Just as a warning, this is the last reader-submitted challenge so you’ll . . .
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April 17, 2013 08:48 PM UTC --
Challenge: Write in any form you wish about bugs or what bugs you.
As soon as I read the challenge, I thought about several stories about bugs I’ve written in the past. I had one . . .
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April 13, 2013 12:14 AM UTC --
Yep, it’s that week when we revisit an old challenge that didn’t have all that many responses. In my first column I included this warning:
If you’ve never ridden a horse, . . .
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April 06, 2013 12:12 AM UTC --
You should be so glad I wasn’t the editor on April 1. I would have had so much fun; but I wasn’t so I’ll have to settle for following the normal schedule and have you write about . . .
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April 04, 2013 04:25 PM UTC --
Your Challenge for Thursday April 4, 3013 is to create a post about a road trip.
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Below is an excerpt from a much longer story about a road trip where I was so dumb! . . .
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March 31, 2013 05:40 PM UTC --
To respond to Andrea's prompt, imagine that your Gather readers are really one cover designer. To simplify, we'll call that person Fred. Describe to Fred the feeling behind your story: the emotions . . .
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March 31, 2013 02:24 PM UTC --
The Prompt
Two weeks ago, I asked you to share tidbits from your idea journal/gag file/notebook, whatever you have. The two responses were riffs on the idea of randomness—good stuff, . . .
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March 30, 2013 12:26 AM UTC --
The fifth Saturday of the month is meant to be freestyle, which normally means you’re welcome to write anything you want. Those who hang around SatWE long enough know that I’ve only let . . .
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March 28, 2013 08:41 PM UTC --
As far as this prompt is concerned, what I really want is:
A. for people who are interested in self-publishing (or traditional) to know where to go and what to do, and what others have . . .
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March 27, 2013 08:14 PM UTC --
The Challenge for Thursday March 21, 2013 is to create a post about someone who has made or is making an impact great or small.
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I posted a story a couple years ago about some . . .
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March 26, 2013 08:26 PM UTC --
Challenge: Post anything you like involving dogs (of any type). You could go so far as to write about the dog days of August.
Challenge: Post stories, picture essays, peoms and anything . . .
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March 23, 2013 12:14 AM UTC --
I was trying to see what I could do to you this week and almost gave up when a couple things seemed to come together for me.
First, my son sent me a picture he took while driving through Phoenix. . . .
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March 16, 2013 12:15 AM UTC --
The third Saturday is always your day to stump us and, this week, G.M. Jackson provides our challenge from his post On the Nose Dialog--A SatWE Challenge Idea (Saturday . . .
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March 09, 2013 12:16 AM UTC --
[For those of you living in certain parts of the US, tonight’s the big night -- we lose an hour of sleep. Make sure you turn your clocks AHEAD one hour tonight.]
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You . . .
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March 02, 2013 12:35 AM UTC --
Yes, I actually said that because... I’m dumb.
I have a template I use for my SatWE challenges and, each week, I open that template, add seven days to the last one and come up with... . . .
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February 23, 2013 12:11 AM UTC --
I don’t know how you do it, but everyone somehow figures out what I’m going to put in my challenge before you even get down to it. I wonder if that might have something to do with . . .
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February 16, 2013 12:05 AM UTC --
I always say I want to take you out of your comfort zone and I think this week’s challenge will do that for many of us.
It’s the third Saturday of the month and that means we’re . . .
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February 09, 2013 12:13 AM UTC --
It’s the second week of the month and we’re going to revisit an old challenge that didn’t receive that many responses.
If you haven’t hung around SatWE very long, . . .
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February 02, 2013 12:15 AM UTC --
Last week kinda screwed up my schedule, but I think we’re back on track now. It’s the first Saturday in February and that means we’re going to be writing about this month or any . . .
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