To all you writers and readers out there:

Finalists and winners for both the last two assignments are coming, as is the Monthly Winner for August.

In just a single month, this site has garnered more than 2,000 visits from more than 1,300 unique visitors. What’s great is that people are really reading the assignment entries, visiting an average of 2.5 pages per visit, and staying on the site for more nearly 2 1/2 minutes! If you’re not familiar with web site statistics, this is way above the benchmark of average sites of this size.

Just a quick note:

As last week’s assignment was a little longer, this week’s finalists will not be published until Wednesday evening. The winner will be announced Thursday evening.

Thanks for your patience as I go through all these great entries!

should I extend the deadline for this week’s assignment? And if so, should I release the next assignment at the same time?

I would greatly appreciate your thoughts on this. Please leave them in the comments field.

In the U.S., Weekly Writing Assignment as graced the screens of people in almost every state in the United States (not to mention other countries like Canada, England, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Brazil, and many more).