The 1,000 Word Challenge

You may not be doing so well with NaNoW­riMo, or NaBloPoMo or even IComWe­Leave, but… you can do a thou­sand word post on your blog. It’s a one shot deal. Think of it as 5 groups of 200 words, or 4 groups of 250 words and it doesn’t really seem that bad at all, right?

This is Chal­lenge #10 at Up For It.

From Seth Godin: How to Write a Blog Post:

An appro­pri­ate illus­tra­tion,
A use­ful topic, eas­ily broad­ened to be use­ful to a large num­ber of read­ers,
Sim­ple lan­guage with no use­less jar­gon,
Not too long,
Focus­ing on some­thing that peo­ple have pre­vi­ously taken for granted,
That ini­tially cre­ates emo­tional resis­tance,
Then causes a light bulb go go off
and finally,
Causes the reader to look at the world dif­fer­ently all day long.

Of course an illus­tra­tion doesn’t count for your 1,000 words. But, if you con­sider these points it may help you to gen­er­ate ideas and keep you focused on what you want to say. Each post does not have to be some­thing pro­found. That’s ask­ing a lot if you are post­ing fre­quently in the envi­ron­ment of online writ­ing where so many peo­ple are writ­ing about the same thing. But, when you really have some­thing to say, a topic you are pas­sion­ate about, you can cre­ate a great post and have enough to say to do the 1,000 Word Challenge.

If you begin to run out of some­thing to say, brain­storm for more points. I got used to the essay for­mat when I was in Col­lege. We were expected to write 5 para­graphs, exactly. The begin­ning, 3 points in the mid­dle and then the con­clu­sion. This means you (I) always work to have three points to explain, con­firm or illus­trate what­ever I am say­ing. I have tried to break out of this pat­tern, mainly because I don’t like to be stuck into a pat­tern. But, it is a good way to get your­self writ­ing and mak­ing sure you have enough to say.

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