Wow, it is 2014 already. Was your 2013 successful? Mine was.

As you know I participated in the 12 x 12 picture book challenge [I signed up for this year as well]. I managed to write my 12 picture books in the 12 months, I submitted each opportunity that arose [that is something I hadn’t really done much of] You know…. although doing those things were great and much needed the most wonderful thing I found with being part of 12 x 12 was the community. I made so many friends, and I don’t use the word friend lightly either. Because most of them are in the Americas or Europe and airfares from the Land of Oz can be both expensive and exhausting I realize I may never get to actually meet them and that makes me feel like I could be on the Moon…  they managed to make me feel as though I lived next door and we had been friends for a very long time.

Now…. to Starting the Year Off Write… Shannon Abercrombie has come up with a wonderful idea. 21 days of writing exercises. This is for Picture Book writers, writers of books for older children and writers of YA… so you’re covered. I registered to receive the blog and the private Facebook group and guess what I found… friends, lots of familiar faces welcoming me to the happy place of encouraging each other to write and write well.

There will be prizes, It is easy. You are not accountable to anyone but yourself. 

Follow the link above or visit http://www.shannonabercrombie.com/start-the-year-off-write-2/the-challenge/ 

May the Force [and my friends] be with you.

Jacque