I’ve been reading through 1000 Words by Jami Attenberg and boy is it the long hug you need as a writer. Especially when you’ve been doling out a lot of the encouragement, you don’t realize how important it is to fill yourself back up. But I was struck by these two questions on P. 189.
Who are you writing this for?
What do you hope to accomplish with this work?
You may or may not be familiar with the #1000wordsofsummer movement led by bestselling author Jami Attenberg, but it is fast approaching as writers embark on the challenge of writing 1,000 words a day for the first two weeks in June. I’d only recently picked up the book because I am feen of books on craft, but I wasn’t as familiar with the actual challenge.
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