January Buddy Challenge Finale!

And with this, we have the finale of our first challenge! Huzzah everyone, we made it through January.

If you participated (or even if not, no biggie) I invite you to describe below what you wrote this month. I have only one condition:

PHRASE IT LIKE A WIN EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T HIT YOUR INITIAL GOAL.

If you wrote a few poems and half a chapter of your WIP, you won because you exercised your skills.

If you jotted down a few quick sentences in between errands and family stuff, you won because you gave yourself room to imagine.

If you took a few extra minutes to put some extra flair into a caption or landing page or whatnot (copywriter territory), you won because you exercised your unique creativity.

If you had a moment late at night where you reached that weird liminal time when your responsibilities for the day fade and everyone else has gone to bed, and you should really go to sleep but you had damn near no time to yourself the whole day and needed to decompress, so you sat down in front of an empty document or notebook and stared bleary-eyed at it for ten minutes before writing three words (and then erasing two) - if that was the ONLY writing thing you did this entire month, then you still won!

Why? Because you persisted.

I made this group because writing is hard, especially when you're alone. You need time, and that's hard to get, and it's tough making money with it even in business writing contexts, let alone trying to monetize creative stuff. We keep coming back to it not because it's necessarily the 'best' or 'most optimal' use of our time -

(not that those things even exist, but that's a whole other ramble)

- but because there is a longing for creative expression inside of every human being, and this is the means by which we are drawn to show it.

So go ahead and tell us how your writing was this month - what you did, what you struggled with, what you'd like to focus on going forwards! Above all, thank you all for being here and for sharing parts of yourselves.

Without further ado, our participants:

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