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The 52 Week Writing Challenge - Introduction

I recently came across a targeted ad on Instagram for a writing challenge that offered 52 prompts - 1 every week that allows you to dive deep into yourself and churn out written material. 

Now this is technically a self paced course, so while it is supposed to last a year, suppose you had to take a break because say you were writing super important professional level exams mid way through the year and did not have the time to actually sit and write anything, you could skip those two weeks, and play catch-up later, or not as you wished.

This seemed too good an opportunity to pass up and since it had come up towards the end of the year, it seemed like the perfect way to kick off the new year.

So this is the introductory post for what is going to be (hopefully) 52 weekly posts on topics that are extremely self exploratory and introspective. I may write intermittently on other topics as well, depending on my mood and how much the creative juices are flowing through me, but this course is largely to create a discipline around writing regularly. While this course helps me discover myself and build a healthy habit, maybe, just maybe, you may find something in my words that helps you as well :)

The course is called "A Year of Writing to Uncover the Authentic Self" and it can be found here, in case you want to try it yourself. Happy Writing and Self-Discovering!



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