Day 31
Introducing the Slice of Life, 30-day Writing Challenge, 2025. The 30-day challenge follows the same format and submission guidelines as the 31-day challenge, but ends one day earlier. Writers enter the challenge with a mental playbook divided into equal thirds, 10 days each.
The precedent of a 30-day challenge is well-established. There is the 30-day fitness challenge, the 30-day leadership challenge, the 30-day embroidery challenge, and the 30-day vegan challenge, so why not the 30-day Slice of Life challenge?
Thirty days demonstrates grit and determination. Thirty days leaves the participant satisfied. Habits changed-check!
Adding that one extra day feels like a step too far, the last straw, a breaking point (insert your own cliche here).
Day 31 is a wobbly loose tooth, a straggler, an afterthought. I’ve written through my territories, covering old favorites like birds, trees, and aging and explored new ones, New York City and museums. On day 31, only the dregs remain: thundershirts, four generation pictures (which I believe I’ve already written about in a prior challenge), placing spoons on spoon rests. Come on, don’t make me write about spoon rests.
I’m going to follow the advice from today’s featured poem, “Unburdening,” and unburden myself from #31 of 31.
Epitaph, 3-31-24: She almost made it over the finish line but it was a bridge too far.