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FREE CLASS | 30 Days of Plotting
To plot or not to plot?
Do you get lost in the middle of messy manuscripts and then end up losing thousands of words? Do you never get to type The End?
Do you see the value of plotting, but just can’t (and don’t really want to) force your story into a rigid and often boring plan?
If you don’t want to plot and you don’t want to get lost again, but you do want to finish your book there is another solution.
We need to change the way we think about plotting.
Join us for the free class to learn more about the plotting challenge and to write a scene.
The class is at 11 am (SAST)
- 10 am London
- 7 pm Sydney
- 2 am Los Angeles
- 5 am New York
The class is at 9 pm (SAST)
- 8 pm London
- 5 am Sydney
- 12 pm Los Angeles
- 3 pm New York
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Hear what the other writers had to say about this challenge:
Abbya
Hi there,
Just a quick note to say thank you for the excellent workshop on Monday as part of 30 Days of Plotting. It was great to have to opportunity to talk through issues, hear where other people are at and have your incredibly useful insights.
Also, a very big thank you for the freebies released in recent weeks, namely the PDF Method Workbook and classes and the Write Your Book In 30 Days. I really feel I am part of a community and, most importantly, that my writing is better for my involvement with Deadlines for Writers, so thank you.
Off to write some more scenes...
John Mcphee
Hi Mia - just wanted to reply to tell you that I'm absolutely loving this 30-day prompt challenge. It is amazing how my long buried novel has finally been created and has flourished from the daily prompts. At times I've actually thought these prompts were personally selected for my murder mystery - they're that perfect a fit!
I have seen the story move, twist, and turn in ways I had never imagined before and I am discovering how forceful some of my characters can be!
This has definitely laid a solid foundation on which to build my novel.
Thank you very much for this creative opportunity.
Metta
Hi Mia
Just thought I'd touch base and say thank you for this challenge. I've now passed the halfway mark as I've just submitted Day 16. I must say it's been a lot harder than I thought it would be. And at the same time, it's been fun seeing a story unfolding as I go along. I only had a glimmer of something before I started. I've also found with the time limitation that I'm forced to make decisions and then just flow with it. I think that was something you mentioned as being necessary. And as a consequence, I'm finding some of the character's personalities and motivations are also changing - although they weren't strongly established in the first place. So, I guess that's the reality when we're making up the story as we go along and also getting to know our characters as we go along too.
Two more weeks to go...will be interesting to see where it takes me. Thanks again for the challenge. I know I wouldn't have come this far without it.
Continuing to show up...
About Us
Deadlines are the solution.
In a perfect world, no writer would ever get stuck, be stumped or get sucked into the black hole that is the internet. We would sit down, the muse would descend and we’d produce literary magic, but this world is far from perfect. We get stuck, stumped and sucked in by hyperlinks. We need deadlines.
Deadlines for Writers is the kindest, most productive writing community on the internet. We kick procrastination butt by meeting daily, weekly and monthly deadlines.
Deadlines for Writers
Deadlines for Writers is the home to several writing challenges. We host the 12 Short Stories in 12 Months, 12 Poems in 12 Months and 52 Scenes in 52 Weeks novel-writing challenge.
We write together, critique each other's work and constantly improve our craft.
Write your book in a year
If you have always dreamed of writing a novel or if you have several incomplete manuscripts languishing in your drawer or if you need some extra help and accountability, well, this challenge is just for you.
Weekly deadlines, flexible prompts and a supportive community will make the challenge of writing a novel not only possible but fun.
Mia Botha
Founder
Mia has been a creative writing coach for more than 13 years. She created the Deadlines for Writers, which as the name implies, is a deadline-driven, online critique group that helps writers beat procrastination and perfectionism and overcome self-doubt because she has learnt that a deadline is the fastest way to fill a blank page.