📝Join us for the Writing Day at Write the Docs Portland!

Day one is all about you and the community! This is your opportunity to:
🤝 Contribute to open-source projects
🚀 Level up together
👥 Network with amazing documentarians

Got a project? Submit it by 4/24 to get featured on our website, or bring your ideas and announce them on the day.

🔗 Learn more & submit: https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/portland/2026/writing-day/

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Collaborate with other documentarians on day one of our Portland Conference: Writing Day! This is your chance to contribute to open-source projects, improve documentation, and connect with fellow documentarians.

📍Submit your project in advance! As always, attendees have the option to bring a project, sign up on site, and announce it during Writing Day.

Submit your Writing Day project by 4/23 to be included on the website: https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/portland/2025/writing-day/

#writethedocs #WritingDay

What is Writing Day?

Writing Day is modeled after the concept of “sprints” or “hackathons”, which are common in open-source software (OSS) conferences. On the first day of the conference, Sunday, attendees are encourag...

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Bad weather means more time for writing. 📕👩‍💻

#WritingDay

Stormy Saturday gives me time for writing. 📕🌧️

#StormySaturday #WritingDay

#writingday today, first dedicated writing day since mid-December.

I'm not a Christmas person to begin with, but losing two-plus weeks of writing time to the holiday hurlyburly sure doesn't make me like it any better.

Such a drag when you get something done, feel good about it, and then realize it wasn’t even on your “To Do” list.
#writingday #hiddenlist
My assistants on a cold, slushy #writingday
Yesterday I was so depressed about a paragraph, it ruined my day. Today I fixed the paragraph and added two others...well, cut and pasted... and I'm like a superhero. You can find me dancing in the kitchen. #writingday

Got started on my #writingday a little late today as I was reading a masters thesis draft this morning and also I did a lot of election doomscrolling this morning. Oops.

Todya I'm working with a letter from 1609 describing enslaved Indigenous people on Margarita (of whom the letter alleges there were about 600). Follow along with my writing process if you like by clicking on this post.

#histodons #amwriting