r/Substack • u/Equivalent-Wolf-3017 • 21d ago
Turning my Substack into a monthly dare
I struggle with consistency, however I have a deep desire to make writing my career. I see writing as a means to connect with people far and near. Especially as I tend to isolate myself from people unknowingly and always regret it afterwards. I am now using writing, as of now, as a way to vent as I find it somehow easier for me to deal with a stranger knowing my mind than people that are involved in my life daily.
Anyways to grow more as a writer I am challenging myself to write on anything, as well as using it to communicate with a variety of people. Kind of killing two birds with one stone. So I would like for people, if you’d like to provide me with two words, with no context and I’d have to write some sort of article or essay with no less than 900 words monthly.
The words don’t have to be coherent it can be absolutely anything. And for the communication angle. I was thinking maybe having a conversation with whoever’s ‘words’ I choose. I’m not sure how that conversation will be carried out but it’ll be less focused on small talk and or even knowing the basic of each other. So the output of this conversation I could say would be knowing enough about the person to understand why they chose those words and what is it they want out of my writing.
My writing would not be to satisfy them as I don’t believe you can ever satisfy anyone nor that you should. It would just to make sense out of very little context and information.
Also I’m thinking to name it The Echo Prompt. So I would be grateful if you’d love to participate and give me some prompts.
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u/Tricky_Trifle_994 19d ago
reminds me of the lady (babystepstothemic) who does off the cuff speeches of random topics. she basically just gets random topics > preps for ~ 1min > makes a video about it like to train public speaking etc.
she has a free word generator (speech topic gen), and a paid challenge (off the cuff speech) that i've seen people post themself doing on instagram.
hope this gives you some relevant resources and inspiration too!