I started this challenge back in 2012 on a whim, and it turns out that I’m not the only person who enjoys sending mail. It’s like I know a bunch of writers or something. Fancy that. A couple of things about the challenge, for those of you who are looking at it and feeling like […]
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This is the third year for the Month of Letters Challenge. It’s a simple thing, really, just to encourage you to slow down. The challenge goes like this: In the month of February, mail at least one item through the post every day it runs. Write a postcard, a letter, send a picture, or a
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The Month of Letters Challenge begins tomorrow. Last year, on a whim, I said that people could write to Jane, the main character in my novels. It turns out that this is a really excellent writing exercise because it causes me to think about all the in-between parts of her life because I’m sending them
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I’d like to invite you to participate in the Month of Letters Challenge. Allow me to explain. Two years ago, I took the month of September off from the internet. I needed to escape from distractions. I invited my readers to write me paper letters and I promised that I would write back. To my
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I need help with a website. Last year I issued the Month of Letters Challenge and, to my surprise, it went viral. I threw together a WordPress website overnight that got us through the challenge. One of the pieces of it was a forum, so that participants could contact each other. Since then, I’ve had
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I mailed 320+ things in February. To say that I did not anticipate the enthusiasm with which the Month of Letters Challenge was accepted, is probably unnecessary. But here… have an anecdote to get a glimpse of what it was like for me. Yesterday I went to the post office, as usual, and stopped at the
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On the first day off from the Month of Letters Challenge, I thought I would report in on how it was going. So far I think it is going really, really well. I should pause here to say that I did not expect this to go viral but, lo, it has. I have no idea
If you are a writer seeking an agent AND participating in the Month of Letters Challenge, let me tell you about a neat thing. My agent, Jennifer Jackson, is offering to respond with letter to one randomly chosen query letter per business day. That’s right. A personal response, mailed back with feedback on either the query
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I feel like this is the little challenge that could. I had thought that I was going to issue a challenge to my readers and that it might spread a little beyond that. To say that I am stunned by the reception that my Month of Letters Challenge has received would be to understate it quite
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Last September, I took a month off from the internet. During my vacation, I told people that they could correspond with me by paper letter. Some people did. Some people still are. Every letter delights me. When I write back, I find that I slow down and write differently than I do with an email.
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