Content: You may choose to write articles, essays, or poetry. There are no minimum criteria for poems.

Commitment: This challenge is meant to help you commit to writing daily and publishing your edited output at least once a week. So set a clear intention like this:

“I commit to writing 150 words daily, publishing the final edited, polished piece, and completing the 7-day writing challenge successfully.”

Daily writing target: To participate in the challenge, you need to write at least 150 words daily, which may not necessarily be edited or finished. You may choose to write more than that, of course. To establish the habit of writing daily, you need to meet your daily writing commitment, so be clear about the amount of time you can dedicate to this exercise.

Share your daily writing: Share your daily writing with the group!

Three strikes rule: You will be part of a group that is strongly committed to writing daily. Having a limited number of participants who write daily without fail is far more inspiring and motivating than having tons of participants who write sporadically.

To ensure this, anyone who misses their daily writing or publishing target more than twice, is out of the group and the challenge.

Publishing your work (Optional): Writers who regularly publish their work are more motivated than those who do not publish their work at all. When people read what you write and give you feedback, your motivation gets a huge boost and you write more. This is a positive feedback loop. Therefore, the second part of the challenge is that you need to publish your work periodically. You are free to publish daily, every other day, or twice a week, but at the very least your work needs to be published on a public platform once. You could publish on one or more of these options:

• Your public blog
• Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Medium or any other platform
• You may also deliver your content as a talk and publish it as a video on YouTube.

Once you publish your piece, share a link with the 7-day challenge group. This will get you readers and feedback as well – a win for all participants. This is an optional requirement of this challenge.

Tip of the day: I will share a tip of the day / technique of the day. Incorporate this tip / technique in your daily writing.

Authoring tools: Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or your favourite editor😊. Also use Grammarly free edition to help with spell check and basic grammar