Current Challengers

If you’d like to be officially listed as a 2013 challenger, follow this link to  JOIN THE MARCH!  Please note, you can update your goals/information at any time.  Simply email me at writersmarch@gmail.com.

 

Current Challengers (alphabetical by 1st name)

A. Martini
Monthly Writing Goal: Work on pages in my journal of my experiences and lessons to pass down to my kids
Daily Writing Goal: To write a post or a page weekly…

Aaron Espinosa
Monthly Writing Goal: To finish a draft of an essay I’ve been working on and revise/develop some other pieces.
Daily Writing Goal: To write or revise for 1 hour daily

Adam Nunez
Monthly Writing Goal/What You Are Working On: (here you can be as specific or general as you like): My goal this month is to get my collection of stories into shape.
Daily Writing Goal: My daily writing goal is at least one hour. I can do this. I will do more than one hour, but on especially heavy grading days, I’ll still do an hour.

Alex (:
Monthly Writing Goal: Working on two short stories (Carla and Lucidity) from time to time.
Daily Writing Goal: 15-30 minutes.

Amanda
Monthly Writing Goal: To keep myself busy and have something to do. I want to keep up my literacy skills, refresh my brain and bring back old memories. I love to write, I love to think, I like to think critically!
Daily Writing Goal: Keep up my literacy skills, refresh myself of old memories.

Annie D.
Monthly Writing Goal: Multiple projects: short story, novel revision, article.
Daily Writing Goal: To wake up early and write.

Ally Weasel
Monthly Writing Goal: I want to finish my novel!
Daily Writing Goal: 15+ minutes Daily

Allyson Hills
Monthly Writing Goal: Humorous narrative non-fiction about when I accidentally opened the door on Henry Mancini back stage at a concert when all he had on was his skivvies.  I’m also doing some speech writing since I just joined Toastmasters.
Daily Writing Goal: Writing 30 min to 1 hour each day

April Gutierrez
Monthly Writing Goal: I have several stories I’ve put on the back burner because of the semester that I will be pulling out.
Daily Writing Goal: 1,000 words

Bess Fernandez
Monthly Writing Goal: I am working on re-working a draft of a novel. I am also considering changing the point of view, so I would like to review my current draft, do some edits, and then either start adding to it or start over. Fun!
Daily Writing Goal: 30 mins a day

Bob Sabatini
Monthly Writing Goal: I’m calling it “MiNoWriMo,” for Miniature Novel Writing Month. The first time I tried NaNoWriMo, I had a devil of a time getting to that goal of 1,666 a day, but could handle an even thousand. So for this go-round, I’m exorcizing the 666 and shooting for a mini-”novel” of 31,000 words. I hope a good number of those will become a new short story or two. However, because I’ve gotten away from blogging recently, I am also giving myself an incentive to blog more: Anything I write in March that I have the guts to share on any of my blogs (theballparktour.wordpress.com, performanceinprogress.wordpress.com or playaday31.wordpress.com/blog) counts double. Daily Writing Goal: 1,000(ish) words a day.

Caitlin
Monthly Writing Goal: My goal is to find a positive way to get my feelings out and better my communication skills.
Daily Writing Goal: Finding a way to get my feelings out.

Carrie Ojanen
Monthly Writing Goal: Put the something-note-poems together into a real poem on March 31.
Daily Writing Goal: Write something-poem in iPhone Notes everyday while the baby is sleeping.

Casey Frank
Monthly Writing Goal: Make a set for the open mic at Temple Beth Shalom and spew words into noxious poetry.
Daily Writing Goal: 500 words

Cat Camille
Monthly Writing Goal: At the end of the month, I will have four new poems and four new stories.
Daily Writing Goal: Daily Writing, and one story a week, and one poem a week

Catherine Louise Gurganus
Monthly Writing Goal/What You Are Working On: Write every day. Spend at least an hour working on my WIP (fleshing out characters, plot, etc.)
Daily Writing Goal: 15 minutes daily

Chris Boat
Monthly Writing Goal: I would like a first draft of part one for my planned novel.
Daily Writing Goal: I would like to find the time to write for at least a half an hour a day.

Chris Strickling
Monthly Writing Goal: I’m working on short live-reading pieces about my mother, my daughter, and about my uncle. I’m focusing on these 5 – 7 minute read out loud pieces because they are possible.  Because I can actually accomplish them, and I’m eager to be writing something personal that hopefully has resonances with other people.
Daily Writing Goal: 30 minutes per day

Cynthia J Patton
Monthly Writing Goal: I want to get back into the habit of a regular writing practice. I don’t care if I’m writing a blog post or working on my memoir, but I want to write at least 30 min/day.
Daily Writing Goal: 30 min

Daniel Mueller
Monthly Writing Goal: A new story, a collection of flash fictions, or a chapter–depending on what comes out on the page.
Daily Writing Goal: Will write no less than a page a day.

Danner
Monthly Writing Goal: Finish draft of novel.
Daily Writing Goal: One scene per day

Darlin’ Neal
Monthly Writing Goal: A strong short story draft; a revision of a novel.
Daily Writing Goal: 3 words

Dawn Sperber
Monthly Writing Goal: To get as far as I can on my novel’s draft
Daily Writing Goal: 3 hours/weekday, 1 hour/weekend day

Elizabeth M-T
Monthly Writing Goal: I’ve been writing a lot of poetry and I don’t hate all of it. I’m really interested in the idea of what my high school English teacher called “poetry as the distillation of language” — in general I try to eliminate as many words as I can without sacrificing meaning.
Daily Writing Goal: 1 poem per day

Erin Lebacqz
Monthly Writing Goal: Finish first draft (currently incomplete) and complete revisions of three of my short story drafts: Stepping Out, Brain Model (not the title), Hiatus (not the title).
Daily Writing Goal: Complete and then revise three story drafts – 1 hour per day.

Evey Wong
Monthly Writing Goal: I want to have at least two CNF essays drafted this month.
Daily Writing Goal: I’ve been stuck averaging at 500 words daily. Current goal: 750 words daily

Gayla
Monthly Writing Goal: Mfa studio art thesis paper (8-10 pages).
Daily Writing Goal: 3 pages written

Jennifer Lynn Krohn
Monthly Writing Goal: to break some bad habits.
1. To be able to to write in places that are not my home and at times that are not mid morning.
2. To try and explore different subject in my poetry.
3. To finish a non-fiction piece that I’ve been putting off because it requires research.
Daily Writing Goal: Write an hour a day

Jennifer Simpson
Monthly Writing Goal: Complete next revision on Section 1 of my memoir.
Daily Writing Goal: MINIMUM 1 Hour per day (on my memoir-in-progress)

Jodie
Monthly Writing Goal: I am working on short stories right now.
Daily Writing Goal: Two pages

Karen L Hogan
Monthly Writing Goal: I’m working on a personal narrative titled Beans and Meatballs and the Pink Stuff. My goal is to get a good first draft of Chapter 2 and write the last chapter.
Daily Writing Goal: 2 hours

Katie Simpson Spain
Monthly Writing Goal: A thesis paper! All fancy like. And due in May. But my rough draft is due on the 11th, so I am going to have to get busy! I have some, but I need so much more!!!
Daily Writing Goal: 30 minutes minimum, 4 hours maximum

Kerry Lynne
Monthly Writing Goal: Short story and some poems.
Daily Writing Goal: 15 minutes

Kirsten
Monthly Writing Goal: An essay about 10 months living abroad.
Daily Writing Goal: 15 minutes

Lenore Gusch
Monthly Writing Goal: There’s a short story I’ve been trying to write about my father’s hometown in PA that I would really love to finish.  Otherwise, I’ve been pretty lazy lately and producing anything will feel good.
Daily Writing Goal: One hour a day of productive writing or writing-related research.

Liz
Monthly Writing Goal: I am challenging myself to write about life as a mother. Perhaps it is for publication in some form, but for now it is to help me explore questions and digest my experiences. I will also be writing several blog posts for my midwifery blog.
Daily Writing Goal: 15 minutes

lkb23
Monthly Writing Goal: Creating the materials for a small chapbook.
Daily Writing Goal: 3 pages a day

LMBaldwin
Monthly Writing Goal: 25 – 30 new pages in novel in progress
Daily Writing Goal: 45 minutes per day (or more)

Mandy
Monthly Writing Goal: Submit to one contest.  Finish all prompts from Natalie Goldberg’s “Old Friend from Far Away.”
Daily Writing Goal: At least 15 minutes

Marilea
Monthly Writing Goal: Finish my memoir
Daily Writing Goal: One hour of reflection and/or revision of my works in progress

Mark McDonough
Monthly Writing Goal: Finish the damn book!
Daily Writing Goal: Finish the damn book!

Melanie Unruh
Monthly Writing Goal: Finish 10th draft of first novel; Complete satisfying draft of first two chapters of 2nd novel; Blog (on my own site, maybe this one too??) at least twice
Daily Writing Goal: Okay, this is a two-parter:  I would like to write for at least an hour every day except for the week I’ll be traveling–for those days, it’ll be 15 mins/day.

Merimée
Monthly Writing Goal: 30 chapters in a yittle book of memoir stories
Daily Writing Goal: 500 words, with a revision counting for another 500: Memoir

Nari
Monthly Writing Goal: Finish and send out two essays and work on drafting a new essay.
Daily Writing Goal: 3 Hrs (Weekday) & 1 Hr (Weekend/Holiday)

Persephonita
Monthly Writing Goal: Select 10 Literary Journals and prepare a work for submission.
Daily Writing Goal: 3 pages of writing loosely, pen doesn’t leave the paper/fingers don’t leave the keys. 30 minutes trying to make something of it.

R. A. Rivas
Monthly Writing Goal: I would like to make a complete work of letters. fictioal, real, and the likes
Daily Writing Goal: One page a day.

Randi Beck Ocena
Monthly Writing Goal: By the end of the month, I’d like to have a second draft of my next workshop story ready to go.
Daily Writing Goal: Three hours

Samantha Ann
Monthly Writing Goal: I want to be more creative with my writing, have more ideas, and develop my own writing further.
Daily Writing Goal: 15 minutes

Samantha Tetangco Ocena
Monthly Writing Goal: Send out query letters (about the novel) by the end of the month (which means final edits to the book).
Daily Writing Goal: 2 hours/day on the novel while in Bloomington; 1 hour/day while in Merced.

Sidsel
Monthly Writing Goal: I just moved back to the small town where I grew up.  It is weird.  I should blog about it (while attempting not to piss off everyone in said town).
Daily Writing Goal: 15 minutes of non work-related writing

Teresa Gallion
Monthly Writing Goal: My monthly writing goal is to complete editing on at least three poems.  I am working on my next manuscript.
Daily Writing Goal: Start or complete one poem each day

Timothy Zila
Monthly Writing Goal: My creative thesis (a collection of short stories), with Dan Mueller.
Daily Writing Goal: Two pages

tylerrite
Monthly Writing Goal: Work on completing novel and new chapters of memoir
Daily Writing Goal: 15 minutes

valerie lyn dow
Monthly Writing Goal: poems I want to read at an open mic
Daily Writing Goal: one poem a day

Wesley Atkinson
Monthly Writing Goal: I am currently writing a story more specifically a horror story.
Daily Writing Goal: 1 Hour each day

Xander
Monthly Writing Goal: Finish the first draft of my novel.
Daily Writing Goal: 1 Chapter

If you’d like to be officially listed as a 2013 challenger, follow this link to  JOIN THE MARCH!  Please note, you can update your goals/information at any time.  Simply email me at writersmarch@gmail.com.