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How to Start and End Your Book.
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? We need to change the way we think about plotting and novel writing.
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. During the “How to Write a Book” class, you will learn about plotting, but also about what it really takes to start and finish a book.
The class is at 11 AM (SAST)
- 9 am London
- 8 pm Sydney
- 4 am New York
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The class is at 9 pm (SAST)
- 7 pm London
- 6 am Sydney
- 2 pm New York
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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.
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