A race to publish 20 styles of writing before turning 40 — and showing you how to do it.

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Twenty Before Forty
Twenty Before Forty

Introducing Twenty Before Forty — the scheme of a lifetime — or, in my case, the scheme of early-into-middle adulthood.

Entry No. 1 — So The List Begins
Entry No. 1 — So The List Begins

And so far completed? Well....0/20.

Entry No. 2 — How I Accidentally Wrote A Memoir
Entry No. 2 — How I Accidentally Wrote A Memoir

It all begins with an idea.

Entry No. 3 — The First Ultimatum
Entry No. 3 — The First Ultimatum

The one where I set myself a challenge.

Carmen Foster is a proud undergraduate student at Ohio University in Athens, studying Interior Architecture with a minor in Playwriting. She has successfully published 2/20 writings — A Thousand Moons Gone, available via IngramSpark, and thedeadlinecafe.net, which you’re on now — in less than three months, and is just getting started. Next on her list (after a book of poems and a blog) are a children’s book and a romantic historical fiction.