http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion Unstressed Syllables discussion and practice en-US Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:22:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/search.php http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion/page/2#post-84 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:49:24 +0000 TylinaVespart 84@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>Finally made it onto the forum as well.. Hey everyone! :)</p> <p>Probably going to be doing the bulk of my writing at the weekends, so I've only really gotten as far as planning for now. Using a slightly different challenge though. How's everyone else doing? </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion/page/2#post-83 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:22:35 +0000 Carlos Velez 83@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>:) glad you did, Ralph. Let us know if you get stuck on any of the set up stuff for the challenge. we're here to help. </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion/page/2#post-82 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:51:20 +0000 Ralph 82@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>Playing catchup here. Made it to the forum. </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion/page/2#post-81 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:20:05 +0000 Aaron Pogue 81@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>I know, right? It's a wonder I can use Twitter at all! </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion/page/2#post-80 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:46:09 +0000 Carlos Velez 80@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>ps. maybe it should be a series. </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-79 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:42:31 +0000 Carlos Velez 79@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>you need a plugin to display previews publicly...it's called Public Post Preview. When you have a draft, it gives you a link somewhere down below your your main text box.</p> <p>OK then, that fills out our 4 review guest posts on Conscious Me, but I would encourage each of you to write your own and publish it. After a month of talking about the challenge, I think your readers would appreciate it, and you'll still get some links from me. </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-78 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:17:31 +0000 Aaron Pogue 78@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>You can check it out here:<br /> <a href="http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/2010/my-experience-with-the-conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge/?preview=true&amp;preview_id=476&amp;preview_nonce=98b1286ecf" rel="nofollow">http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/2010/my-experience-with-the-conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge/?preview=true&amp;preview_id=476&amp;preview_nonce=98b1286ecf</a></p> <p>At least, I think you can. I have no idea how portable preview links are. If that doesn't work, you can always log in and preview it yourself.</p> <p>Be warned, though: it's long. Halfway through the challenge, it's already 2400 words. I can't help myself. </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-77 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:23:42 +0000 Carlos Velez 77@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>Hell yes, I'd love to see a preview! Give it to me! </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-76 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:21:22 +0000 Aaron Pogue 76@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>I don't know if you're already counting me, but I'm in. I've got mine done and scheduled to go live over the weekend (when I don't have any blog posts scheduled). If you'd like to see a preview, let me know. </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-75 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:07:49 +0000 Carlos Velez 75@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for jumping on that review post, Antti! I hope you guys will have had a great experience, and also have some helpful critiques that I can put towards future endeavors.</p> <p>That leaves 1 more spot for a guest post on Conscious Me reviewing the Challenge. Any takers?</p> <p>If any of you have completely missed what I'm talking about here, read <a href="http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion?view=all#post-29">this comment I submitted a while back</a> to get the details on my offer. </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-74 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:11:41 +0000 AnttiKokkonen 74@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>Hey gang. I just did an additional pre-writing updates post (in addition to the "challenge page": <a href="http://zemalf.com/1297/pre-writing-challenge-updates/" rel="nofollow">http://zemalf.com/1297/pre-writing-challenge-updates/</a></p> <p>I'll be updating that and putting my updates, thoughts and notes in there - and added links to all of you as well (let me know if I'm missing someone).</p> <p>Carlos - I'll be doing the kind of review you asked - especially since you so helpfully made all those questions to make it easy :) </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-71 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:28:41 +0000 GiveABrick 71@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>Evening all :)<br /> Just a quick note to say hello. Carlos has very kindly agreed to allow me to join the challenge, albeit a week late. I'll head over to the relevant place and add my bio details etc. in a moment but I just wanted to first say hello and thank you in advance for allowing me to play too. I look forward to getting to know you folks :) </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-70 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:13:01 +0000 Aaron Pogue 70@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>As Carlos has pointed out, it's been my goal to work through the next six weeks (or, five now) of posts during the course of this challenge, so I'll end the month with two more weeks finished.</p> <p>Given that, I haven't made great progress on my eight challenge posts. I've written one to completion, and done good descriptions on the other seven. I <em>have</em> gotten nine of the next twelve posts done, though -- so I should be rolling right into the challenge posts early this week. </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-69 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:36:38 +0000 jmatthews 69@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>I emailed this to Carlos before I remembered the forum. Duh.<br /> As for my challenge week one, I have my 10 post ideas and some notes on most of them. I have started one in draft and I am going to try to crank out 1 or 2 tonight. My goal for this challenge is to write posts that would be regular features on my site. I want to be able to choose one when I need to post without worry that it is timed or topical. I guess that is pillar content but I am not focusing on a very specific niche. There have been some tough days that I could use posts like that and that is what I am going to write! </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-68 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:58:08 +0000 LimitlessMegan 68@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>I decided that I needed to look at this challenge as the entire 6 weeks of writing (18 posts) rather than just the 2 weeks of pre-writing (6 posts) otherwise I would be so focused on the 6 post topics I'd forget to think of things for the others. So this is where I stand on all of them.</p> <p>I have, at least, an idea for something like 13-15 of the 18 posts. Three are now in draft format (fully written and linked, waiting for editing and finalizing), and three have either been posted or are already scheduled to post. </p> <p>I've written at least two of the six around midnight when I should be in bed - or at least not working. I just can't stop writing! Although, I imagine there's a good chance I'll crash and burn in about three days :). </p> <p>Yours,<br /> Megan </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-67 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:19:59 +0000 violetminded 67@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>My success with this challenge as been... relatively good. I've gotten some great ideas for posts (for violetminded and beyond) and a couple of drafts under my belt. Let's see if I can keep this up. </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-66 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:05:26 +0000 Carlos Velez 66@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>haha! I always hate you for your success. No, that's awesome! I'm glad you're in this. I think your approach to it is really going to help you with building pillar content, though pretty much everything you write is pillar content, you genius fool. </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-65 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:13:10 +0000 Aaron Pogue 65@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>Mine's going well. Not so much that everyone should start hating me for being weirdly successful, but the way I decided to do things forced me to make a posting schedule for the first time since I started the blog, and that has been incredibly valuable to me. </p> <p>It makes working ahead low-stress, because I have a dozen posts already titled and waiting for content, so I can just pick one that piques my interest at the moment, and add a couple paragraphs. Before that, I had to work on one article at a time, and the task could get monumental.</p> <p>I'm already having more fun with my blogging, because of this project. Thanks for putting so much time and energy into it, Carlos, or I never would have. You rock. </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-63 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:07:58 +0000 Carlos Velez 63@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>Okay guys, now that the first few days are over, who's having a difficult time with this? I'm sure some of us have not gotten off to a strong start and that's okay. Let us know what what you're struggling with and maybe we can help. If nothing else, getting it off your chest will help.</p> <p>If you really don't want to post it here, you can email me too. carlos at conscious me .com </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-55 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:23:08 +0000 Carlos Velez 55@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>I'm really excited about all the different ways people are using this challenge.</p> <p>Doolin is using it to knock out a series on PHP in wordpress.<br /> Justin is using it to dig out some old promising bits of work and breathe life into them.<br /> Bert is writing a beginners guide to blogging.<br /> Deacon and Dustin are using it as an opportunity to start increasing their posting frequency.<br /> Aaron is mapping out the next 6 weeks of his blog schedule in a cohesive, linear structure.</p> <p>You guys are incredible and inspiring. Way to take this thing and run with it! </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-49 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:14:12 +0000 doolin 49@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>Carlos, you got the last copy for $5. </p> <p>Feb. 19. Ok, Sounds good.</p> <p>I need to grab a global feed for this forum too. </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-48 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:27:28 +0000 LimitlessMegan 48@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>Sounds good to me. I've got some notes on topics and such, but can use the week for the final details (like the Page :) ). </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-47 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:47:26 +0000 jmatthews 47@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>Feb 19th it is! See you all there! </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-46 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:58:29 +0000 Dustin Evenson 46@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>Anyone know the basic px dimensions for a blog header, and how do I get a gravatar for my profile? I emailed carlos my site stuff and bio, well i gotta get on writing... </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-45 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:19:00 +0000 Cebu Tech Blogger 45@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>That's fair enough... </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-44 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:55:33 +0000 violetminded 44@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>Sounds achievable. Looking forward to getting started. </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-43 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:26:19 +0000 Carlos Velez 43@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>I propose we officially launch on Friday Feb 19, at 12:01am in whatever time zone we each live in, and end on Sunday March 21, 11:59pm. This is exactly 31 days (1 month) of blogging, and timed to include 2 weekends which I thought might be when some of us will get a lot of this extra writing done.</p> <p>It also will have given us 1 week to think up, create, organize, prepare, and promote the event which seems like a reasonable amount of time without waiting too long and losing our enthusiasm.</p> <p>Hopefully it will also give Doolin some time to win the technical war he's battling at WIAW.</p> <p>Any objections or suggestions? </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-38 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:50:11 +0000 Carlos Velez 38@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>David Doolin has lost his mind! He's selling a limited amount of his 52 page ebook for $5. Get one immediately before they're gone. <a title="How To Publish Blog Post eBook version 0.5 Ready by David Doolin" href="http://website-in-a-weekend.net/creating-content/publish-blog-post-ebook-version-05-ready/">Read about and buy it here</a>. </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-37 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:35:00 +0000 jmatthews 37@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>I will write a review. that would be very interesting to read everyones perspective on this challenge. </p> http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/topic/conscious-me-pre-writing-challenge-general-discussion#post-32 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:57:40 +0000 Carlos Velez 32@http://www.unstressedsyllables.com/forum/ <p>*Note: I want you guys to talk about the entire experience. Therefore, the deadline for this post will be 2 days AFTER the end of the challenge to give you a chance to add any last thoughts after the challenge is over. If you're one of the first 4 people to commit (like Bert did, thanks Bert!) you must have this submitted to me within 2 days or I will go on to number 5 (so even if you're not in the first 4, go ahead and sign up, there's still a chance to get in). </p>