I’d like to challenge you to write about the authors who inspired you. I’ll pick my top favourite answers at the end of the challenge, but I will honourable mention every reply.
How this works
Anyone can take part. There’s no charge at all (much like a dead battery). You can enter as many times as you wish. Write about all the authors you love.
You can join this challenge in one of three ways.
- You can post a reply right here. But you want to own your own content, right?
- You can answer with a blog post or web page (or even a forum post) of your own. Just link to this page and put the URL in the ping form at the bottom (unless you have automagical WebMention pings set up).
- You can also reply via any ActivityPub blog or social media (Mastodon, for example).
The last day of this challenge is the 30th of September. After that, I will collate all of your lovely replies and pick a “winner” or two.
If you have nowhere else to publish your entry, you can use our general chat forum.
If we get a large number of entries, I’ll write a roundup post of the entries so far. So get in sooner rather than later for the most attention.
How I pick a winner will be based on a mix of how much I enjoyed reading your writing as well as the number of comments, likes, shares, boosts, mentions, replies, and so forth.
Prompts about your author (all optional)
- When did you first discover your author?
- What book from your author did you read first?
- Where did you read this book?
- How was that first reading?
- What about this author inspires you?
- Why did you first pick up a book by your author?
- What do you admire about them?
- What’s a perfect quote from your author?
- Which book by your author should new readers try first?
I look forward to reading your entries.