anyway idk if you heard but September is International Long Project Writing Month brought to you by the Mountain Goats! The rules are you write a long form piece. You yourself write it. Poem, screed, novel, prayer, essay, whatever. We don’t have a 501c3 but we do respect authors and their labor - ThreadSky

themountaingoats.bsky.social • 185 days ago

anyway idk if you heard but September is International Long Project Writing Month brought to you by the Mountain Goats! The rules are you write a long form piece. You yourself write it. Poem, screed, novel, prayer, essay, whatever. We don’t have a 501c3 but we do respect authors and their labor

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jmbussert.bsky.social•184 days ago

Ballpark for when a poem becomes long form? Like, are we talking 1,000 words or an Anne Carson book?

kevidently.bsky.social•183 days ago

It depends on whether you consider Faulkner prose or poetry

tyrotcm.bsky.social•183 days ago

The Raven should qualify, and that's what, two or three pages?

swordsjew.bsky.social•184 days ago

i swear to hashem i will write my novel this month

threnody.bsky.social•184 days ago

talia, the world needs it and after your last book i suspect you need something that is all consuming labor yet an absolute hoot?

swordsjew.bsky.social•184 days ago

i need a new big project. without anchoring projects my life gets very empty

friesneverdies.bsky.social•185 days ago

will the goats judge it? I didn’t know goats could read

admiralbeamish.bsky.social•185 days ago

I am calling the mixtape I am working on as a valid project.

wendycloudberry.com•185 days ago

liner notes easily qualify

harmadryad.bsky.social•185 days ago

I'm from the 80s and I have read many novels disguised as liner notes.

wendycloudberry.com•185 days ago

Yes. I dearly miss their ubiquity, but some musicians are keeping the dream alive!

harmadryad.bsky.social•185 days ago

Ugh, my brain. "Keeping the Dream Alive" is a track by the band Freiheit on the "Say Anything..." soundtrack. Which I was JUST discussing with my Dudeguy in the context of "albums with good liner notes." 🙃

rifka.bsky.social•184 days ago

I refuse to engage with creativity unless I can buy the official T-shirt and find out how I rank against the other project guys

spice8rack.bsky.social•185 days ago

I look forward to writing yearly screeds thanks to this revolutionary program 🫡

goodcitizen.bsky.social•184 days ago

3 minute pop song count? Asking for a friend. Some take longer than others…

johnnyvector.bsky.social•184 days ago

I say yes! I’m planning to take the opportunity to finally figure out what to do for the coda of a song that’s been sitting almost finished since two weeks after the big eruption of Eyjafjallajökull.

cokes.bsky.social•184 days ago

I love InLoProWriMoBroToYoByTheMoGo

drkatedevlin.bsky.social•185 days ago

No you see I was happy with an excuse to hide from my writing for yet another month 😭

marlo.ooo•184 days ago

can you yell at me to do this (nicely) if you remember it’s okay if not

ladygaia-x.bsky.social•183 days ago

Here’s the beckoning to finish that script: or at least power through 🤌🏻

kimkelly.bsky.social•184 days ago

On it!

pinkoscare.bsky.social•185 days ago

Sweet. Motivation to finish rewriting this novel for the dozenth time or so. Maybe this time I'll finally get it right 😓

foolmorks.bsky.social•184 days ago

Thank you for the push I need to get the last two chapters of my fanfic under work

ludditerobot.bsky.social•184 days ago

This is great news for me because as it happens I'm writing something about the Mountain Goats.

whimgruent.bsky.social•184 days ago

Cool.

i should write something

acekatana.bsky.social•185 days ago

I’ve been needing an excuse for a manifesto

priva.cat•184 days ago

Can it be about nerdy factual stuff, or just fiction? Also, should we say it's inspired by the international long project writing month? Can we abbreviate?

(None of this is serious, btw, I'm gonna write something long anyway but thought I'd ask)

miketurpin.bsky.social•184 days ago

Teaching long-form pieces has helped me show countless kids that nonfiction is not in fact boring, and can be as riveting as any novel. Thank you for encouraging this.

oozeley.bsky.social•184 days ago

sent my manuscript to my editor, she's gonna help me finish this book

i might send y'all one when i'm done

blazewarriorwolf.bsky.social•180 days ago

I write 75k words a month ish for 4 stories. I’m already basically doing this lol

leg7075.bsky.social•183 days ago

didn't read the account name and totally thought this was leading up to a joke about mountain goats eating paper and wanting longer writing so that they have more to eat

guiltypanacea.bsky.social•184 days ago

Time to finally compose that quadruple album

jimhenleymusic.bsky.social•184 days ago

I have a song whose first draft had more words than Desolation Row. (I counted). I was born for this!

knepherbird.com•184 days ago

All the songs I ever wrote probably don't add up to as many words as Desolation Row.

jimhenleymusic.bsky.social•184 days ago

You know, I’d like to hear your songs sometime

knepherbird.com•183 days ago

The original stuff I've written (probably best described as "juvenilia") was recorded in college and only exists now on a handful of cassette tapes. I did start on a vanity cover project this weekend, though, with my son producing.

jimhenleymusic.bsky.social•183 days ago

Nice

urostyle.bsky.social•184 days ago

How long we talking bout? 5 pages minimun?

theangelremiel.bsky.social•185 days ago

Do "notes for an rpg" count?

tyrotcm.bsky.social•183 days ago

Some of mine should. For example: https://newtortuga.obsidianportal.com/wikis/duergar

Write the iceberg, show the tip.

themountaingoats.bsky.social•185 days ago

ha oh man let me show you the absurd stuff I have in folders that a game designer friend has patiently offered thoughts on over the years

binarystar.games•184 days ago

👀

chromatographic.bsky.social•185 days ago

You have caught my attention 👀

theangelremiel.bsky.social•185 days ago

mxlabradorite.bsky.social•184 days ago

Alexa, play In League With Dragons

timfitz.bsky.social•185 days ago

This sounds fun, would watch funny people play

booksofm.com•184 days ago

Mountain Goats for the win!

rockstarelise.com•184 days ago

I’m debuting my first EP on September 20! It’s a concept piece and I definitely feel it would qualify for this though music not being literature is its own sort of thing

mcoorlim.com•185 days ago

That's every month.

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