Welcome to the Write 28 Days Blogging Challenge

Looking for a blogging challenge to chase away the mid-winter blues? Join us for a writing challenge that will not only flex your creative muscles, but help you learn the discipline of writing and posting consistently. If you’re new to blogging, you’ll love the added benefit of having 28 new posts in your blog!

If You’re Ready to Link Up, Click Here!

The Skinny on #write28days

Here’s how it works. You commit to writing and posting EVERY DAY in February. Twenty-eight days of writing and posting. Between February 1 and 5, you’ll be able to come here and link up your landing page (or first post) under the appropriate category.

Check back often during that week and find someone else who’s writing about a topic that seems interesting to you. Visit their post and leave a comment, letting them know that you’re part of the challenge, too.

On social media (Facebook links, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, etc), use the hashtag #write28days to make it easier to find each other, connect, and cheer each other on (after all, what’s the fun in a challenge with no cheerleaders?).

Join the Facebook Group if you’d like to engage even more. We’ll have daily share threads and accountability opportunities.

Don’t worry. There are no #write28days police out there making sure that you post every day. No one will knock at your door at midnight if you haven’t hit publish yet.

In fact, no one will knock on your door if it takes you longer than 28 days to write 28 posts. Or if what you have to say takes longer than 28 days to say (that happened to me one year…it was more of a ‘#write41days’ challenge).

The History

This whole idea of having a writing challenge started almost a decade ago with a blogger called The Nester who issued the challenge in October. She eventually turned the reins over to Crystal Stine, who announced in November of 2018 that that would be the final year of the #write31days October challenge.

I participated for five years, and I can attest that participating in the challenge was the best thing I ever did for my blogging. I’d been writing to an audience of mostly crickets for an entire year. When I joined the challenge, I suddenly discovered community.

The friends I made during that first challenge are still my friends to this day. We hang out in each other’s spaces, promote each other’s writing, and cheer each other on through sickness and health, job loss, and life changes.

My hope is that you’ll find community and encouragement for your writing journey, too.

For the Five-Minute Friday Fans

Those of you familiar with Kate Motaung and the Five-Minute Friday phenomena have asked if there will be daily prompts. The answer is yes, but not from Kate. She already had something big planned for the month of February, and won’t have time to do a special Five-Minute Friday prompt and link-up gig.

But, if you WANT to have prompts (that’s what I used my first year–it made it super-easy to get started), I present you with 24 prompts (Kate will still provide the traditional Thursday-night prompts #fmfparty on Twitter).

Looking for a blogging challenge to chase away the mid-winter blues? Check out the #write28days challenge! Are you in? #blogger #writer #challenge #writerslife #amwriting

Link up Categories for the Blogging Challenge

In order to make it easy to find series of interest, we’ll have some basic categories. Think about which ONE category your series will fit into best, and link up there (link up opens February 1 at 4 am MST).