As if I needed another project in my life.
But this one is designed to make me — and you — better at other projects. It’s called “300 Words,” and the idea is to put a little peer pressure on writers to be accountable for doing what they should be doing every day. Which is write.
Technically, this is a joint effort between Hugh MacLeod and I. But, honestly, it’s mostly for you and me.
Hugh wrote this post back in April about maintaining a daily creative quota. As you can see, he’s already putting in his 300 words, not to mention daily cube grenades, daily biz cards, and daily newsletter cartoons.
Hugh is already a committed and prolific writer, creator, cartoonist, and entrepreneur. He doesn’t need these cheap social experiments to keep him motivated.
But that’s why he’s GapingVoid, and we’re not.
Here’s the gist. All you do is sign up to become a contributor. This is open to anybody and everybody, provided you aren’t a spam artist. Once we make sure you’re not trying to give us $10 million of your Nigerian uncle’s fortune, we’ll approve you and you’ll be free to post.
Then to post, simply email your text to post [at] 300words [dot] posterous [dot] com and it will go up on the site automatically.
But remember, you have to become a contributor first.
And that’s it. A little more detail can be found on the site’s first post. But otherwise, it’s pretty self explainatory.
Now go write something.
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Woohoo!
An excellent idea and extremely tempting! I could manage writing 300 words right after feeding MY blog, writing up the customer offer, doing next weeks employees schedule, walking the dog and spending 22 minutes with the family (well, I don’t know about the last item, one has to set priorities).
Please be so kind and store my e-mail address for reference and turn me down if I ever fail to listen to the voice of reason and attempt to sign up. In any case, very good luck with this project, I’ll at least link to it and tweet it around.
Max
Frankfurt, Germany
Yes, Max, this why a great writer friend of mine once told me, “You need to steal time in order to be able to write.”
Finding the time to write is a great privilege…
I would never consider myself a writer, but then again, who knows. This is a cool project and may teach me a lot.
i’ll give it a whirl.
I wish there were an easy way on 300 Words to follow particular writers. Already there is too much to read it all every day, but there are a couple of writers I’d like to follow. Even if I click their names in Posterous, I can’t find their entries. Maybe this is just the nature of a group blog.
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