To sign up for the Pre-Writing Challenge, send an email to carlos@consciousme.com with “Pre-Writing Challenge” as your subject.
Bloggers need to have a cache of posts to dip from because we’re not always inspired to write every day. We need a reserve to get us through writer’s block, vacations, major site maintenance or emergencies.
Many people try to build up a reserve but find it drying up too quickly because we’re too eager to post, or we’re not keeping a writing schedule or we’re just procrastinating too much.
The Pre-Writing Challenge is going to give you the motivation you’ve been needing to get your blogging back under control and improve your finished product.
By the time this challenge is completed you will have:
- 2 weeks worth of blog posts in your draft queue.
- New blogger friends.
- Increased traffic to your site.
- A wealth of link love – and link love means Google love.
- Conversation with other participants in the Pre-Writing Challenge Forum.
- A chance to link your helpful pre-writing oriented posts on the forum for other participants to check out.
The Pre-Writing Challenge Details
When you sign up you are making a commitment to yourself, your blog, and the other participants. This commitment includes:
Reading These 2 Posts on Website In a Weekend – Pre-Writing Is Your Friend – With Benefits (Part 1) and Part 2.
Contacting me about your commitment to participate at carlos@consciousme.com (include the title subject “Pre-Writing Challenge” and understand that I will add you to a list solely for updating participants on the challenge. If you also wish to sign up for a regular email/newsletter subscription you can sign up here.
Writing 2 weeks worth of posts using the tips in part 2. This means if you normally post daily, you’ll pre-write 14 entries. If you post 3 times a week, you’ll pre-write 6 posts. This will be fair because for the most part we have a publishing frequency relevant to our content and life situation.
Maintaining your blog during the challenge. As suggested in part 2 of the above posts, feel free to cut back your publishing schedule slightly to give yourself some breathing room, but don’t leave your readers in the lurch.
Putting up a Pre-Writing Challenge Banner on your site, and linking it to the main Pre-Writing Challenge page. I will provide links on the main page.
Publishing a main post or page about your participation in the challenge. You will use this page to:
- let your readers know what you’re doing
- link to the ]Pre-Writing Challenge Main Page, which you will get a link for after I’ve created it
- link to the two posts about pre-writing (Part 1 | Part 2)
- link to the Pre-Writing Challenge Forum
- list out the titles and teasers for each post
- update the status of your post (title only, outline, first draft, edited draft, final draft)
- link to every participant in the challenge (I will provide a master document with everyone’s info – meaning you’ll have to get it to me, see below). If you feel in over your head designing one, I will send you the html for mine so you can copy and paste it into your page and just make the necessary adjustments.
Participating in the Pre-Writing Challenge Forum by letting us know how you’re doing, what troubles or successes you’re having, and also linking to any posts you may have written with helpful tips or inspiration. Part of the point is to build relationships, so don’t skimp on this.
Sharing everyone’s success. Every time someone completes the challenge, every participant should send them some link love to their main post or page on the challenge. Use Twitter, Facebook, email updates, post updates, or that new Google Buzz thing I’ve been hearing about. Shout it from the mountain tops and send them as much traffic as you can. The more you hype up other’s success, they more we’ll hype up yours and send you a deluge of traffic.
The Potential For The Pre-Writing Challenge
This will be as successful as we make it. You’ll have a stash of drafts to pick from, you will create anticipation for your upcoming posts by bringing attention to this challenge. You’ll make friends, build traffic, and improve your SEO.
What more do you want?
How about this? I will put up an ad for 1 week in my sidebar, right at the very top to promote every person who finishes this challenge before the deadline. Whoever finishes first gets the first single ad, dedicated to their site alone. After 1 week, I will replace that add with 2nd and 3rd place together, also for one week. After that I will put up text links with favicon sized images for up to 10 participants at a time in the order they completed their challenge. These will also be up 1 week each, until all participants have had an ad on my site.
Them’s The Rules
If you have a blog, you qualify. Even if you already have a 2+ weeks stash, you can always use more.
It must be entirely new content, not half completed posts. If you’ve got anything more than a basic outline and title, set it aside for now.
A post counts as complete when it’s been edited to your satisfaction, metadata has been entered, links placed, photos set and captioned, etc.
Challenge will run for 1 month, I’ll have the start date soon, but first I must get a few things together and build some buzz for the competition. Don’t wait to start writing though. You early joiners get a bit of extra time for jumping in and helping to promote this thing.
I’ll give you some more details about all this later, but for now email me at carlos@consciousme.com and get to writing!
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Thanks,
Carlos
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Related posts:
- Pre-Writing Challenge Update: Week 1
- The Pre-Writing Challenge Main Page: 12 Crazy Bloggers, 2 Weeks Of Extra Posts, 1 Month Of Magic
- The Pre-Writing Challenge: Conscious Me Updates
- Pre-Writing Challenge Updates: Week 2 + Darren Rowse Message To Challenge Participants
- Justin Matthews (Guest Post): Exit the Lazy, Enter the Pre-Writing Challenge!
I’ve done this several times. I’ve been as much as 17 days ahead.
It was easy the first few times I did it.
It’s harder to do now for some reason. I can get 4-5 posts ahead sometimes, then I use that time up doing other things, and not able to get ahead again for a while.
I wrote several “Practical WordPress Tips” on this as well. I should go back through them.
Dave Doolin´s last blog ..Pre-Writing Is Your Friend – With Benefits (Part 2)
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This feels like a huge commitment! It should be good for everyone who is in on it. I will be there with 10 posts.
thanks
Justin
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John Alden | Web Tasarimi Reply:
July 15th, 2010 at 9:46 AM
I hope it was fun for you! For me it sounds like a fun & intuitive challenge
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Right on. This will be good. I’d like to get 8 “evergreen” drafts completed, so I can put them up whenever I don’t have anything timely to put up.
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Smart stuff! I’ll be interested to see how many people can follow through:)
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Alright, I’ll bite. I’m not much of a pre-writer but this’ll be an interesting challenge. I mean, if I can write 50,000 words in 30 days, this should be a snap… right?
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Although I don’t really understand everything about this challenge, I’m here to give it a try, I just started the blog so this should increase some traffic and demolish my writer’s block
Time is the issue, I have to balance work and my wife and sleep. Don’t we all need more time, ha.
Thanks Carlos.
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@the professor: you’re not alone… (smile)
@Carlos: I’ll take the bait. I’m pretty much excited about this. I’ll read this post again later.
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@Cebu Tech Blogger: badass…glad you’re on board man. we’re going to rock this.
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@the professor: no worries Prof, I’ll send out an email tomorrow with a bit more info and will be happy to answer any questions you’ve got. We’ll have a forum up soon too over at Unstressed Syllables soon where we can have more cohesive conversation and such too.
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@Amanda: Hi Amanda, I’m glad you’re here. You won’t be the only NaNoWriMo veteran either – Aaron (see Unstressed Syllables link in above comment) has done it for a few years too. He’ll be joining us in this shindig.
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@Josh Hanagarne: does that mean you’re in? send me an email and let me know.
@Deacon: thanks again for jumping in. this could be a really cool experience.
@Justin Matthews: great to have you Justin – I’m looking forward to seeing what you and everyone will do with this challenge.
@Dave Doolin: dude, thank you. that’s all.
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I’m in, but there is too much “demands” on the challenge to make this worthwhile. All the linking and such is AWESOME, but it’s time consuming (and it’s not appropriate for everyone to create a page/post about this and telling their readers, or placing a banner on their blog).
I’d like to encourage people to just do this, and demanding loads of linking will make most people not take the challenge, which they might take on their own.
Antti Kokkonen´s last blog ..Blogging Challenge – Pre-Write 2 Weeks Worth of Blog Posts
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@Antti Kokkonen: Thanks Antti, for joining and for your thoughts on the “demands.” There’s a couple things I’m going to think about today and try to find the right balance of asking extra work commitments from people that help build a positive atmosphere that is encouraging and conducive to productivity, but making it simple and efficient so it doesn’t consume the time we’re supposed to spend writing. I’ll probably put out some feelers on those couple of issues in the email today and see if anyone has suggestions.
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Alright, I'll bite. I'm not much of a pre-writer but this'll be an interesting challenge. I mean, if I can write 50,000 words in 30 days, this should be a snap… right?
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