{"id":21,"date":"2013-01-11T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/make-a-commitment-to-yourself-participate-in-the-family-history-writing-challenge-next-month\/"},"modified":"2013-07-03T16:41:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T21:41:22","slug":"make-a-commitment-to-yourself-participate-in-the-family-history-writing-challenge-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/make-a-commitment-to-yourself-participate-in-the-family-history-writing-challenge-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Make a Commitment to Yourself, Participate in the Family History Writing Challenge Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"commitment\"<\/a>For the third year in a row, Lynn Palermo (a.k.a. The Armchair Genealogist<\/a>) is hosting the Family History Writing Challenge<\/a>.\u00a0 This 28-day challenge begins on February 1 and ends on the February 28.<\/p>\n

By participating in the challenge, you are essentially making a commitment to yourself to write x-number of words each day about your family history.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fun way to set a goal and work toward that goal each day during the month of February.\u00a0 What\u2019s even better is that you will get tips and support along the way.\u00a0 And because it\u2019s a \u201ccommunity\u201d event, there\u2019s also a sense of camaraderie knowing that others are right there with you, sharing in your successes and, yes, sometimes your frustrations.<\/p>\n

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This year, because of my busy schedule, I\u2019m going to pledge to write 200 words each day<\/strong>.\u00a0 Last year I had a plan for what I was going to do, but I didn\u2019t really stick to it.\u00a0 So for this year, there\u2019s no plan.\u00a0 I\u2019m just going to write 200 words on whatever aspect of my family history I feel like writing about that day.\u00a0 It may seem like a very disjointed approach, especially if you know me and how I work.\u00a0 But sometimes it\u2019s the best approach for the creative process.\u00a0 And because I plan to write haphazardly (even though it makes me cringe!), I\u2019m going to start using Scrivener<\/a> so I can at least manage my jaunts and tangents in some organized manner.\u00a0 (Too bad the Scrivener class<\/a> I signed up for doesn\u2019t start until February 19.)<\/p>\n

So what about you?\u00a0 Will you make a 28-day commitment to write about your family history?\u00a0 I\u2019d love to hear about your plans, so please leave me a comment or a link to your blog post about the challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the third year in a row, Lynn Palermo (a.k.a. The Armchair Genealogist) is hosting the Family History Writing Challenge.\u00a0 This 28-day challenge begins on February 1 and ends on the February 28. By participating in the challenge, you are essentially making a commitment to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[366,356,39,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-history-writing-challenge","category-news","category-news-events","category-writing-writing-your-way-to-the-past","category-writing-your-way-to-the-past","cat-366-id","cat-356-id","cat-39-id","cat-18-id","cat-17-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}