DAY 1 OF THE MARCH SOLSC! #SOL23

Wednesday March 1, 2023Thursday March 2, 2023 Stacey Shubitz

Screen Shot 2017-12-02 at 6.09.23 AM — Write. Share. Give.

I’m celebrating you showing up to share your writing this month!

I’m celebrating your willingness to dedicate a month of your life to being part of this online writing community!

I am celebrating the first day of the 16^th Annual Slice of Life Story Challenge!

We’ll provide one tip a day, for the first half of the challenge, at the end of the announcements section. Also, you’ll find a section called “BE INSPIRED,” which will follow each day’s announcements. That section will include a link to someone’s slice of life story and/or a quote about writing.

Here’s the link, https://forms.gle/y5TcH9ST6Mijvu2AA, mentioned in the video.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

A special welcome to the first-time Slicers who are joining us this year! Be sure to leave the words “I’m a first-year Slicer” in your comment for the next few days so longtime members of our writing community can welcome you.

Please fill out this year’s Participant Information Form if you haven’t completed it yet. Like last year, we’re asking participants to register and commit to this Challenge no later than 11:59 p.m. EST today. This form will close tomorrow morning, March 2nd. In keeping with the spirit of a month-long challenge, it is essential to participate fully for thirty-one days.

The daily “Call for Slice of Life Stories” goes live at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time (i.e., New York time). Since we have participants on six continents, we consider the day over at midnight Eastern Time. Comments can close as early as 12:00 a.m. (the following day) since the post has been live for 24 hours. Often, the daily call for slice of life stories will stay open until the next day since our co-author team usually sleeps just after midnight (since most of us live in the Eastern Time Zone). If you post the link to your slice of life story after 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time, please go to the next day’s call for slice of life stories and leave your link there.

We will continue Multi-Lit Fridays this year so that participants are invited to blog in another language! The first Multi-Lit Friday is on March 3rd.

Need a list of strategies to try? Click here to find out how some of our Seasoned Slicers find things to write about.

BE INSPIRED

Jessica C arey is a TWT contributing writer and a long-time Slicer. She recently published a slice of life story called Invita t ion, which is about a moment on a recent family trip seen through her daughter’s eyes. As we know, children can help us see the world in new ways with their unjaded perspective. Check out her post and then be on the lookout for something a child says that enables you to see the world differently.

QUESTIONS

Need to contact a co-author with a question? Please email us rather than leaving your question in your comment (below). Thank you, in advance, for your patience with us. We receive many emails during the first few days of the challenge. We will respond to all emails as soon as possible.

Contact one of these co-authors if you have questions about the individual challenge.

INDIVIDUAL CHALLENGE
If your last name begins with the letters A – C, please email questions to Morgan Davis at medavis8[at]gmail.com.
If your last name begins with the letters D – G, please email questions to Amy Ellerman at ellermanamy[at]gmail.com.
If your last name begins with the letters H – K, please email questions to Betsy Hubbard at betsymhubbard[at]gmail.com.
If your last name begins with the letters L – N, please email questions to Jenna Komarin at Jennakomarin[at]gmail.com.
If your last name begins with the letters O – R, please email questions to Beth Moore at beth[at]elizabethmoore.work.
If your last name begins with the letters S – V, please email questions to Stacey Shubitz at stacey[at]staceyshubitz.com.
If your last name begins with the letters W – Z, please email questions to Sarah Valter at sarahvalterreads[at]gmail.com.

Questions about the Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge should be directed to one of these co-authors:

If your last name begins with the letters A -H, please email questions to Leah Koch at Leah.koch7[at]gmail.com.
If your last name begins with the letters I – Q, please email questions to Lainie Levin at lainlev72[at]gmail.com.
If your last name begins with the letters R – Z, please email questions to Melanie Meehan at meehanmelanie[at]gmail.com.

Please note: We cannot answer challenge-related questions via Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

AND FINALLY…

For the first time in 16 years of doing this, the intro post didn’t publish correctly at 12:01 AM. It posted, but it posted with all of last year’s comments. Good thing I woke up in the middle of the night. (First time I’ve ever said that.) I fixed the issue, and here we are! I sincerely apologize if you could not leave your link after just midnight. The rest of the week should be smooth sailing with the posts!

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. View all posts by Stacey Shubitz