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Although Valentine’s Day is still a few months away, Tillerman wants to hear your boating romance stories with this latest group writing project.

Theme
Love and Sailing
In Tillerman’s words: “tell your readers something about how your love life and your sailing life interact.”
Rules
- Write a post on your blog about love and sailing, or love and boating, or something with love and a water-faring vessel.
- Your post must be new.
- Link to
the announcement post on the Proper Course blog.
- To submit your entry, email tillermeister [at] gmail [dot] com with your permalink url and post title.
- Recommended: Give your story a unique title.
Submission Deadline
Tuesday December 1st 2009
Results
As Tillerman posts them on his Proper Course blog
Submit your entry until 2009-12-01 here
--Jacob Share, Professional Blogging Consultant and THE Group Writing Projects Expert
For the 2nd year running, Luke Gedeon celebrating American Thanksgiving with a group writing project, and he’d like to know for what you are thankful.

Theme
7 Things you are thankful for
Rules
Submission Deadline
Wednesday November 25th 2009
Results
Thursday November 26th 2009
Submit your entry until 2009-11-25 here
--Jacob Share, Professional Blogging Consultant and THE Group Writing Projects Expert
Joanna Young’s latest group writing project is about the relationship between writing and learning.

Theme
Writing to Learn
In Joanna’s words: “The floor is pretty much open, but here are some more questions that might get your creative juices going: How do you write to learn? What have your learned from writing? How have you adapted your writing in order to learn more, better, faster? What do you want to change in order to learn through writing in the future?”
Rules
Submission Deadline
November 22nd 28th, 2009
Results
Before the end of November
Submit your entry until 2009-11-28 here
--Jacob Share, Professional Blogging Consultant and THE Group Writing Projects Expert
Blog Action Day is about bloggers trying to raise awareness by everyone blogging about the same theme for a given day. It’s one massive group writing project and this year’s theme is Climate Change.

Theme
Climate Change
Official quote: “Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. One day. One issue. Thousands of voices.”
Rules
- Write a blog post related to the theme. Here are some
ideas.
- Recommended: reuse the official logo at right or one of the other
badges on your own post.
- To submit your entry, the post must contain a link back to
the official website.
Submission Deadline
Thursday October 15th 2009
Results
It’s not clear from the official website when the results will be posted, or if they’ll be posted at all. However, they have been posted in past years so I expect that the results will be posted again this year, as they are submitted.
Submission ended on 2009-10-15
--Jacob Share, Professional Blogging Consultant and THE Group Writing Projects Expert