Category Archives: 10K Day stories

Skydiving as a Writer

Written on May 6, 2014 by in 10K Day stories

By guest blogger Jimmy Hanson 10,000 WORDS in one day. Now, normally this would make a person panic. Kind of like sky-diving, that thing where it looks awesome from afar but when you’re actually there looking out the window it suddenly hits you – wham! You’re a thousand feet off the ground and you’re going…

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The Healing Power of the 10K Day

Written on March 25, 2014 by in 10K Day stories

By Milli Thornton I’VE BEEN RUNNING the monthly 10K days since 2009 but I haven’t blogged about the phenomenon myself in a long time. I’m usually more interested in what our 10K day gang—especially newcomers who are freshly addicted—have to say about their experiences. But last Saturday I had an experience that reminded me not…

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The loneliness of a long-distance writer

Written on February 25, 2014 by in 10K Day stories

By guest blogger Liam L. Carton I GUESS WE ALL know how hard it can be to write. Eric Blair once commented that “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon…

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10K Day: Discovering Our Modest Founder 8 Years Later

Written on February 12, 2014 by in 10K Day stories

By Milli Thornton HAVE YOU EVER wondered how the 10K Day got started? Now that I know how it really got started, I wish I’d been more curious myself. When my friend Jenny Turner (author J.R. Turner) introduced me to the 10K Day in 2006, I assumed it was just one of those things that…

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