It’s Saturday and that means it is time to reflect on the week and celebrate things both big and small. Join our community and celebrate this week by linking up or just stopping by the host Ruth Ayres’ blog to read others’ celebrations.
Join us in the Slice of Life story challenge. Every day for the month of March, bloggers all over the globe are writing their slices and sharing them on the Two Writing Teachers blog.
This is the third time I have participated in the Slice of Life Challenge. I like participating each year because I get to read and discover a lot of new blogs and I get to challenge myself to write every day. It is a struggle some days to figure out a topic and get the writing in. In previous years, I have had some really short and sort of pathetic blog posts during the month of March. This year, however, my writing muscles are flexing and I have been able to come up with good topics and am struggling to pick which one to write about. What’s more, some of the writing just flowed out of me. That has never happened to me before. So today I am celebrating feeling like a legitimate writer. If you missed them, here are my posts from this week:
Keep Calm and Carry on? (SOLSC17)
I also am celebrating challenging myself. I signed up to try to do a 7-day Blog Like a Pro challenge which is hosted by Jeff Goins. I am ridiculously far behind in my work towards that challenge but I appreciate the assignments and will probably be working through them. My blog wonderings post was some brainstorming about a manifesto. I think I know the focus for that writing, now I just have to get it to sound right. I had not planned on participating in this challenge and had a hard time finding the time to do all of the work. It seems to be a good process for the people who are keeping up and posting in the Facebook group so I will work to catch up this weekend.
I am also working on the appearance of my blog. I had some fun with Canva this week. I had forgotten how awesome that website is for creating content.
What do you have to celebrate this week? I would love to hear from you in the comments!
I’ve also just started attempting to use Canva! I also designed my first in-blog quiz, which will be going up in a few days. And I freshened up the look of my blog, which is a free Blogger site, just before March began. It’s fun to try new things.
Andrea, I would love to see some of your work with Canva. I use it but prefer PicMonkey when creating digital inspirations. I also created a redo of my blog to fit my free-flowing thoughts. I love your playful wordle.
I haven’t done any work with PicMonkey. I will have to play with that too. The header on my blog is a Canva design. I am thinking about designing an icon there as well. I did that wordle a couple years ago. I need to go back and play some more with word clouds. If I ever get the time…
Two writing challenges going on at the same time, you sure are busy. The feeling when writing gets easier and ideas seem to flow is a wonderful feeling for a writer/blogger. Glad for you. I still sometimes turn to short and simple on busy days.
I admire you for doing both challenges, Andrea, but love that you are feeling so good about the writing. Some days after all this time I still struggle to make it work, at least in my eyes! Good luck with all the goals!
I know what you mean about not having enough time. I love the writing habit I’m building with SOL, but I get so caught up in the writing and commenting that time literally FLIES! Glad you had a good week!
Wonderful to celebrate yourself as a writer!