It’s an #amwriting blog party!

The #amwriting community turns two years old on August 3rd!  Yay!

I’m posting in three places to celebrate:

The #Amwriting Blog
Gem State Writers
Here at my Author Blog

It occurs to me that others might want to participate in a progressive blog party with me.

If you’d like to pay tribute to this awesome community and write a blog post for August 3rd, just leave us a link to your blog in the comments below.

To make this a progressive party, please come back here, retrieve the link in the comment just below yours, and add that link to the bottom of your #amwriting birthday post.

Possibilities for posts:

• Tell us how being part of the #amwriting community has impacted your writing life.
• Write a short story or a poem featuring the #amwriting hashtag.  (This can be a flash or a very short story or a haiku—anything! Extra points if you make me laugh.)
• Describe someone you met through #amwriting & the impact that person had on you.
• Tell us about a funny conversation on #amwriting. Pick a memory and share it.
• Tell us about a spin-off.  Writers often meet through #amwriting and form smaller groups.  Have you done that?  Tell us about it!
• Draw something related to #amwriting and post it.
• Take a picture of your writing space with #amwriting in the background. Post the picture.
• Double extra points: Yarn bomb something #amwriting-related and post a picture of it.
• Do you have a picture of #amwriting peeps meeting in real life? I love to see those.

Did I mention points?  That’s kind of a metaphor.  Which is a cheap way of saying there are no prizes.  Only fun.  I’ll be linking to participants’ posts throughout the day. And you may dance.

* If you do not have a blog of your own and still want to participate: set up a blog post on the #amwriting site!  Just follow the directions here (http://bit.ly/writerbio), but choose the category “Happy Birthday, #Amwriting!”

** Quick note:  My request for urls is making my spam filter work overtime.  I also get a ton of spam, so I don’t want to disable it, but I am double checking all the posts now.  If you get caught there, I will rescue your post ASAP!  :D

*** The blog party will start at http://www.amwriting.org and the first link will go to Robert (first in the comments).

****Time differences.  I’m going to keep the party on my clock, which is Mountain Daylight Time (UTC -6).  Please have your post up by midnight, since that will already be late afternoon for some of our participants.

Questions?  Email me at johanna@johannaharness.com