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#1000WordsofSummer starts June 1

Thousands of writers the world over plan to take part in Jami Attenberg‘s two-week writing project, 1,000 Words of Summer (or, if hashtags are your thing, #1000WordsofSummer). The big write-a-thon starts this Saturday, June 1.

This marks the seventh year Jami has offered this project to the writing community, and this year, for the first time, I was planning to be one of those thousand-word-a-day scribblers. Alas, some life issues have interfered, so I won’t be able to join the mass writing event when it begins this Saturday, June 1. (As John Lennon put it, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”) I plan to join in spirit, and hope to make up for my absence with a two-week writing journey later this summer.

Friday Five: four months in

What I’ve learned from diving back into creative writing.

Four months ago, I relaunched this blog in its new incarnation, as a website dedicated to the craft of writing. I had just wrapped up a nearly 33-year career in communications, public relations and marketing with Missouri University of Science and Technology and, while I was certainly ready for a break from the day-to-day rigors of what that career had become, I was not ready to retire from writing. I was instead ready to dive back into writing for the joy of it. I was ready to grab hold of this new chapter of my life.

The past four months have been invigorating.