2007.01.31
February 2007 Blog Challenge
It’s been just over a year, I believe, since the last blog challenge has been issued. I miss these things. They gave me a goal for writing which is sometimes all the motivation I need. What is a blog challenge, you ask? Basically someone sets a goal for participants to write about for a fixed period of time (somewhere along the line it became a month).
Previous challenges included a post a day for a solid week (which turned into a month!), two “thank you” challenges, a yearly goals challenge (I think I failed miserably on that one!), dealing with the alphabet, a non-blogging challenge, tips and tricks, a formative school event challenge, and a favourite posts listing..
I’ve thought about what to come up with for this month. I started off thinking it would be fun to redo the alphabet challenge. Now I’m thinking about found items.
Found items are the objects that unexpectedly pop into your life that are so out of place or interesting that you take notice. They affect you. Sometimes it’s a letter tucked into a book (read the PPS) but it could be telescopes set up on a sidewalk by neighbors to show people the transit of Mercury or legs coming out of a hole in the ground.
So for the challenge… Describe three items you’ve found. This can be done in a single article or in several.
1: The item must not have been yours when found.
2: It must be a physical object.
3: If found more than a couple months in the past it must be something you still have. Obviously this doesn’t apply for things you find “that day.”
4: Extra “points” for pictures and stories if you have them!
Leave a comment if you’re up for the challenge. Be sure to link to your site so we can follow along (or better, link to your posts about found items!). Let the challenge begin!
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4 Responses to “February 2007 Blog Challenge”
- gTodd says (February 1st, 2007 at 05:05:26 )
So what timeframe are we talking about for writing? Over the course of today, a week, the month?
- douglas says (February 1st, 2007 at 09:41:44 )
Anytime during the month of February. It can be one post or several.
- Mookee says (February 1st, 2007 at 14:38:51 )
Extra points for pictures? What the hell? What’s the scoring system? I know the whole “oo o ooo extra points if you do this” crap. I want to know what oyu mean by “extra points,” and what do I win if I get the most points? I don’t know how to get “a” point, much less several, requiring the plural form “s” at the end of it.
Here’s something I’ve found. Doug is stupid.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t fit in with criteria #2 so I can’t use this “entry” as my first. Though I think one could argue that many times Doug is stupid can be easily reflected in a tangible way.
I’m an ass, and sometimes I really, really enjoy it.
- douglas says (February 1st, 2007 at 21:55:49 )
Extra points is used here as a figure of speech. I know you take things sometimes too literally, Mookee. We’re all sorry that you are the way you are sometimes.
There is no “winner” in the traditional sense. If you want to consider yourself the “winner” by being the first person to complete the task then more power to you…
