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FREE CLASS | Dialogue
Write better dialogue in just 30 days!
As writers, we spend our days reading, watching, and learning as much as we can, which is great, but the theory is only good if it results in action.
Dialogue is an amazing tool. It brings your characters to life. It moves your story forward, and it is fun to write. Overcome your fear of dialogue. Put the theory into practice by joining us for a new flash fiction writing challenge focused on dialogue.
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
Hear what the other writers had to say about this challenge:
Cobus Kruger
Writing thirty stories in thirty days turned out to be an incredible creative wellspring. One of those stories even became a novel! Along the way, my dialogue writing transformed from a weakness into a core strength. That is the power of focused practice.
Kathy Sanford
After practicing dialogue every day for 30 days, it comes more naturally as a craft than it did before. The value of this challenge is freedom from all the other elements of writing a scene or story, to zero in on making sure the dialogue itself is alive and true-to-life. Once learned, these lessons become part of a skill set, available to apply to all future scenes and stories. A worthwhile investment!
Susanne Bennett
30 Days of Dialogue is teaching you how to wave a magic wand. Yes, dialogue is that important and that powerful.
Dialogue can turn stories from dull to vibrant. It turns ‘telling’ info dumps into ‘showing’ life on the page. It also creates that powerful ‘white space’ which helps the reader to relax and remain engaged in your story.
In the 30 days of Dialogue Challenge you learn and practice all of that. All of these lessons are so valuable! You can use them for any piece and any genre of writing: poetry, short stories, novels, you name it.
So if your writing needs that extra bit of magic – learn to wave that wand. Learn how to write dialogue. You’re gonna have fun.
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.
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.