Join me in writing #1000WordsofSummer!
plus a special invitation to The Soup™ Discord Server!
What’s up, swimmers?!
Last week on SITS, we talked all about starting and sticking with creative projects, and went over some methods for keeping ourselves accountable! One of those was snagging a buddy or creating in community, and wouldn’t you know it? There’s a way for us to do that here, starting June 17th!
, writer of , is hosting her annual writing challenge, #1000wordsofsummer, and I’m going to take the plunge! Wanna join?Starting this Saturday, the goal is to write 1,000 words a day of whatever it is you’re working on — a novel or non-fiction project, a screenplay, a memoir, your diary, etc.
About this project, Jami says:
Through this project people have: made friends, built cohorts and writing groups, finished proposals and entire books, sold and published books, and, perhaps most importantly, found their voices. I hope that it ends up being meaningful for you in one way or another.
If you’d like to subscribe to Jami’s Substack, you’ll get daily emails encouraging you to write, plus additional writings and resources by other creators, and an invite to the #1000wordsofsummer Slack channel.
But if you’re looking to keep this all SITS related…
You’re cordially invited to join The Soup™ on Discord!
Created and hosted by yours truly, I hope for this to be a friendly lil space where we can chat about all things magical and mundane, share tips, tricks and practices, be in supportive and like-hearted community, and whatever else we want.
Once you're in:
Please look over the Rules & Info channel, and click the green check mark emoji (✅) to gain access to all of the server channels.
Head to the Roles channel to select information about yourself like your pronouns, geographical region, DM status, zodiac sign, life path number, and more!
Then, be sure to see The Directory for a full list of the channels available and their unique purposes.
There is a channel specifically for #1000wordsofsummer so that we can chat about the challenge, share snippets, and hype each other up; as well as a channel called Sprinting, which has a bot installed to help us run timed writing “sprints” where you can input beginning and ending word counts to help keep you on pace!
Soon, the Discord Server will only be for paid pals 💸, but I wanted to give all my inbox buds the chance to join to help kick things off! So regardless of whether or not you’re joining the challenge, get your behinds in the server, okay? 🥳
**Please note that the link expires in 7 days! If you miss it, reach out for a new link!**
Hope to see you in The Soup™ soon! I can’t wait to smash some word count goals!