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FREE CLASS: Dictate your Novel

Scrivener and MS Word

Have you ever heard fellow authors gush about insane word counts they've achieved through dictation? Have you been inspired to jump into dictation yourself, only to flounder? And struggle? And buy tools and read articles about dictation?

And give up?

If this sounds like your experience with dictation, this workshop is for you! Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer, who after all but giving up herself, has mastered the skills she needed to dictate successfully. To date, she's written twelve fiction books solely through speaking her words. Come hear how she did it and how dictation is totally possible for you.

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The class is at 9 pm (SAST)

  • 8 pm London
  • 5 am Sydney
  • 3 pm New York
  • 12 pm Los Angeles

All classes are recorded. Please register to receive the replay link.

A deadline is the fastest way to fill a blank page

and in this class I am going to tell you about 52 of them.

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.

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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.