About this blog........

Sometimes you need a new challenge in writing. You need a challenge that will make you work hard, think, and solve problems, yet not take too much time from your real writing.

Sometimes you just need a diversion, some quick project to take your mind off the main focus of your work.

Here, you won't find advice about writing, or personal war stories about the process, or even thoughts on writing. What you will find is a series of brief challenge projects - about 1 a week - to make you think about writing in a new way, with my ideas (for what they're worth, I'm not a published writer) of how the challenges relate to your writing. They won't take long; the idea is to make them less than a few hundred words so that it distills the essence of the writing to the essentials, and doesn't take time away from the writing you want to do.

You'll also find a showcase for your work via the challenges. If you take the challenge, post your entries in the comment section. Show how you approached the challenge, inspire others, and read other people's work.

If I'm doing my job correctly, maybe I can get you to think about your writing in a new way, giving your creative energy a little jolt - like a cattle prod.