Labor Day weekend writing challenge: the Mini 1000

How’ve you been doing with your writing this summer?

If your summer has been anything like mine, your writing efforts may have been inconsistent, intermittent, or sporadic.

Or maybe you crushed it this summer. If so, congratulations! No matter how your writing journey evolved over the summer months, you have a chance to finish strong by signing up for the Mini 1000 this Labor Day weekend.

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A funny thing about writing funny things

Writing humor is harder than it looks

During my university PR/marketing career, I got to work with many talented people, including one of the funniest writers I’ve ever read. But the work being what it was — writing mostly about academics and their research, all very serious stuff — this writer didn’t have many opportunities to let his humor shine through. That is, until we decided to start a blog to highlight an annual tradition that brought hundreds of alumni back to our campus every month. We put this guy in charge of it and turned him loose.

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