Slice of Life Story Challenge

Thankful for This Writing Community

Stacey Shubitz
WRITE your slice. SHARE your link. GIVE some comments to (at least three) other slicers. If you're leaving your comment early in the day, please consider returning this evening or tomorrow to read some of our evening posters' slices.
WRITE your slice. SHARE your link. GIVE some comments to (at least three) other slicers.
If you’re leaving your comment early in the day, please consider returning this evening or tomorrow to read some of our evening posters’ slices.

Last Tuesday, Michelle Haseltine stepped into the professional blogging world.  She dropped by last week’s call for slice of life stories and submitted a link to her blog post along with a comment stating it was her first slice of life story.  By the time I read it at 9:00 p.m. last Tuesday evening, ten other Slicers had already commented on her blog post welcoming her to the SOSLC Community!  Seeing those comments made me very thankful for the way the members of this writing community welcome newcomers into our midst.

November is just a few days away, which means 30 Days of Thanks is about to begin.  (Click here to read more about 30 Days of Thanks, which happens on blogs and social media in November.)  If you’re looking for something to write about today, any day in November, or any day of the year, consider a slice of life story that focuses on the idea of gratitude.

Here are some things I’m grateful for when it comes to the SOLSC Community

  • People give each other genuine comments to fuel each other as writers.
  • Relationships form through writing.
  • Educators come together to celebrate when something works or to lament and move forward when it doesn’t.
  • Advice is given, thoughtfully, when writers ask for it.
  • Members of the community rally around each other when times are tough.
  • Classroom ideas are shared and swapped.
  • Slicers get together with each other when they find themselves in the same city.  (Can’t wait to meet some of you for the first time at NCTE next month!)

Finally, a little “programming” note: Starting next week, Dana Murphy will host the weekly Slice of Life Story Challenge. Each month a different co-author will host the SOLSC (e.g., Tara Smith will host in December, Betsy Hubbard will host in January, so on and so forth).  All six of us will participate in the Challenge as writers and commenters during the months we’re not hosting.  However, only one co-author will host the Challenge each month.  (I’ll be back in March to host the month-long Challenge.  More on that once 2014 begins!)

Published by Stacey Shubitz

I am a literacy consultant who focuses on writing workshop. I've been working with K-6 teachers and students since 2009. Prior to that, I was a fourth and fifth-grade teacher in New York City and Rhode Island. I'm the author of Craft Moves (Stenhouse Publishers, 2016) and the co-author of Jump Into Writing (Zaner-Bloser, 2021), Welcome to Writing Workshop (Stenhouse Publishers, 2019), and Day By Day (Stenhouse, 2010). I live in Central Pennsylvania with my husband and children. In my free time, I enjoy swimming, doing Pilates, cooking, baking, making ice cream, and reading novels.

68 thoughts on “Thankful for This Writing Community”

  4. Writing was a personal goal of mine that Two Writing Teachers gave me the opportunity to fulfill – but the community of commenters and new friends is the piece that has kept me going. Thank you to all! And this week’s slice is about a happy kind of Halloween:

    happy faces

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  29. The writing community has been wonderful. I love getting know slicers through their writing. I especially loved meeting people in person at NCTE and also at the AllWrite!!! Summer Institute. Words truly bring joy and uplift. We are able to come alongside others. Thank you to all who have nudged me to with beautiful words.

    SOL: A Bee Story to Celebrate 500!

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  65. The support I’ve received from the SOL community has been so important to me. I know I wouldn’t have written nearly as much as I have if it weren’t for all the kind and encouraging words from my fellow slicers. Thank you, everyone!
    Today’s slice isn’t directly about gratitude, although I am grateful to my father for all these baseball memories:
    http://readingtothecore.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/slice-of-life-baseball-memories/

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