Write every day
Ever found yourself staring at a blank screen, coffee in hand, wondering if your muse ghosted you? Yeah, we’ve all been there. But guess what? That era of existential writing crises is officially OVER.
Introducing 365 Writing Prompts — a free resource packed with daily sparks of inspiration to keep your creative juices flowing all year long (which is a really looong time).
No more twiddling your thumbs or questioning your writerly existence. Just one prompt a day, every day, for a year — so you can practice, play, and finally get those stories out of your head and onto the page.
If you’re not a better writer by the end of this, I’ll eat my hat - and that’s saying a lot cause I enjoy sporting those rather large ones that you could fit an entire fruit basket onto.
365 Writing Prompts
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A deadline is the fastest way to fill a blank page.
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.
12 Short Stories
Can you write 12 Short Stories in 12 Months?
12 Poems
Can you write 12 Poems in 12 Months?
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.
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