Suggestions For the Writing Blog

Yeah, the writing blog is a definite go! (See this post if you have no idea what I’m talking about.) Liz, Jessica, and Katie were all interested in co-leading this with me, so we’ve been working feverishly to get this off the ground. The blog launches on Monday.

For those of you who expressed interest in participating or for those of you just reading this now, we need a lot of help. We’re working on the behind the scenes planning and administration, but we need regular contributers. We need content! Being a regular contributer would mean committing to participating on the blog (reading, commenting, etc.) and occasionally submitting content (a question for discussion, a writing prompt, a guest blog post, a video, etc.).

If you tell us in the comments below or by email that you want to be a regular contributer, then we’ll list you on the blog as part of the team. What happens next is that we hope you’ll suggest ideas for content. We’d like you to propose your ideas to us not so that we can scrutinize them, but so that we can coordinate everything. Just let us know that you’d, for instance, like to write a post about your experience writing a short story, so we can say, “How about Tuesday?” and you can say, “Thursday works better,” and we can say, “Thursday it is. Please submit your post by Wednesday night.”

We’re serious about making this interactive, which means that we’re all figuring this out as we go along. Ideas are always welcome, and if you want to become more involved let us know or suggest some ideas for content. We also hope that you’ll help us build this community by promoting the blog.

If you want to sit back for a while, that’s cool too. We hope you’ll give us some feedback if you have any and jump in if you feel the urge.

Okay, so let’s get down to business. It’s brainstorming time. Below is a list of all the major ideas we’re considering. Let us know if you have any thoughts on them or if you have more to add or if you might want to take the lead on pursuing one of them.

• Blog posts from regular contributers (including us organizers).
• Discussion questions.
• Writing prompts (suggested by Gretchen).
• Other media: Possibly a podcast or video responses to questions in the style of momversation.com (suggested by Megan).

We’re open to all genres of writing and also mediums other than text. If you can somehow connect your idea to writing, then we want to hear about it.

A note about the blog launch: We’re launching the blog on Monday. We want to make an occasion out of it, so we’re hitting the blogosphere hard that morning. On all of our blogs, we’ll be posting a response to a prompt and directing readers to the new blog (the link will be made available Monday morning). We hope also to make a scene on twitter and 20sb. So, if you’re interested, help us out and respond to our prompt that day and direct your readers to the new blog.

My blog allows for threaded comments, so feel free to respond to each other directly.  And, as always, you can reach me at writetoreach [at] gmail [dot] com.

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