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Join us for Maymester Festival Writing Challenge

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Need a challenge to help you write in the month of May.  Here's a fun challenge for you.

It's a writing challenge based on college semesters called Maymester.


You are given daily assignments that require you to reach a certain word count each day.


There are four assignments each day, plus one extra credit assignment.
At the end of May, you should have about 60,000 words and if you complete the extra credit assignments, you have about 69,000 words.


It's a fun adventure that's sure to spark your creativity and help your word count.

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The Idea!

How This Got Started

This is the brain child of Deartra D. Boone.  She was working on her novel in progress and she needed some inspiration.  She realized that she was more inspired to write when she had a challenge to write for, so, the Maymester Festival Writing Challenge was born.

The idea is from her days as a college professor.  She taught a semester that was called Maymester.  It was a fast paced semester that last about 15-days.  There were assignments, activities, and writing for her classes to do.

She change this idea to be beneficial for herself during the month of May.

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Upcoming Events

  • Maymester Festival
    Maymester Festival
    Wed, May 01
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    May 01, 2019, 12:00 AM CDT – May 31, 2019, 11:59 PM CDT
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    May 01, 2019, 12:00 AM CDT – May 31, 2019, 11:59 PM CDT
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    Writing a Novel... Join me for this exciting writing challenge. 31 Days of Strategic Writing!
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Activities

The activities for this festival are designed to get you to write for your novel in creative ways.  Instead of just writing for your novel, you are given task that will encourage creativity.  You'll be energized about your writing as well.

Novel Writing

Checking Text on a Document

World Building

City Skyline

Character Building

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Novel Writing

Main Writing

You write your novel.  Whatever you have planned or plotted is written for these activities.  The goal is 1,000 or more words.

World Building

Secondary Writing

You build your world.  You read each challenge and write 250 or more words for this challenge.

Character Building

Secondary Writing

You build your characters.  You read each challenge and write 250 or more words for this challenge.

Work It In...

Main Writing Supplement

You try to work in aspects from either your world building or character building that you wrote for the day.  What you add is based on each challenge.  You write 260 or more words.  These are words in addition to what you write for the main writing of your novel.

Work It In 2...

Extra Credit Writing Supplement

You try to work in a scene or a twist.  What you add is based on each challenge.  You write 250 or more words.  These are words in addition to what you write for the main writing of your novel.

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“If you think there is no time to write now, there will never be.”

Pawan Mishra

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