Our Own Little World:
Ten Day Writing Challenge

WHEN: Mon.- Fri. for 2 weeks (9/23-27 & 9/30 - 10/4)

WHERE: Online Tutorial via Email

COST: RBWG* Members $50; Non-Members $75

* Registration is through the Rehoboth Beach Writers Guild. To register for the September Challenge, fill out the form below. If you’d like to Join the RBWG, Click here.

“I think there’s a real virtue to that secret period when you’re developing your work and no one has read it. To me that’s the best time. You’re in your own little world. No one is commenting on it (the work) or misunderstanding it or praising it.”
— Meghan O’ Rourke, MFA vs. NYC

Deadline to register: 9/20

submit The form above to receive a note back with further instructions.

Welcome to the group!

DETAILS FOR SEPTEMBER 2024 CHALLENGE

For the next ten days (yes, we will take weekends off) let’s give ourselves permission to write big and messy and not worry so much about the final product. Let’s begin this autumn by burrowing into our own little world and write what we need or want to write, exploring as we go, even if that means writing things we’ll never use. Who knows? Those things might lead us to the descriptions, details, and plot twists that we WILL eventually use. I believe in this: writing what we don’t need in order to get to what we do need.

Every morning, you’ll receive an email with words of inspiration to encourage and remind you that even in your own little world, you aren’t alone—other writers have been in your shoes. You’ll also get a prompt that you can use or not. Your only goal is to try to write 500 words every day—and then email me with me your word count. That’s it. At the end of our ten days, you’ll have generated 5000 words and whether you use the words or not in your novel, essay, memoir, or story, you will have generated valuable material and ideas.

About the Challenges: Offered three times a year (September, January, June) these two-week sessions challenge participants to write 500 words a day for ten days (weekends off). Monday through Friday for two weeks, Maribeth emails an early-morning writing prompt with a few words of inspiration to participants who must email her back by days’ end with the number of words they wrote that day. Participants can use the prompts or not. (Many use the challenges to work on novels or memoirs already in progress).

There is no review of the work—just the requirement to write 500 words a day and be accountable to Maribeth who will keep track of your word count.