A new space for The River, and get your badge for July

Our next write-a-small-stone-a-day challenge will be taking place in July. In January, over 350 bloggers across the world took part. This time, we'd like to encourage even more people to discover the joys of paying attention to one thing every day and writing it down.

Like last time, we'll be very happy if you want to write your small stones in your notebook and nobody ever sees them, or if you want to share them on your blog, on Twitter, on Facebook, with your neighbours etc. One of the things a lot of people enjoyed in January was reading other people's small stones, supporting each other and making new friends.

We have two different blogrolls.

One is a brand new space called The River which is for blogs that only contain small stones (no need to use the 'aros' tag this time.) If you post your small stones on your usual blog and you want to join The River, you could always create another blog and upload your small stones to it once a week or so. (If you have a Wordpress feed which will filter your small stones from your usual blog, feel free to send us this too.)

The other will appear here, and is for anyone who's planning on taking part in the July challenge, regardless of what else you might post in your blog.

Both blogrolls are open for business as soon as you're writing small stones. If you'd like to join them:

Email fiona@fionarobyn.com and tell me your blog address and whether you're posting just small stones (in which case you'll be added to The River and the blogroll here) or other things too (in which case you'll just be added to the blogroll here). 

I'm trying to keep things very clear because we're determined to spend less time doing admin than we did in January. And we'll hopefully have more blogs to add! If you need more detail, let me know and I'll make these instructions even clearer. Thank you!

If you want to keep up with the news, you can join the mailing list here - we won't be collecting any other details about participants than their web address this time. There's also a group for July small-stoners on the Writing Our Way Home forum.

And, as you can see from the previous post, our new badges are ready. Get them while they're hot and let's start spreading the word...

PS In January, we created a book (the beautiful pay attention: a river of stones) from our favorite stones. In July, the whole project will be online. 

Roll on July!