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These blogs contain information, support, and resources for participating in writing challenges, including how to stay motivated during NaNoWriMo and what other writing challenges you can get involved in. A challenge is a great way to achieve some creative goals, whether it’s crafting a lot of flash fiction in a short amount of time or a writing sprint to complete your novel.

#Lovember2024 recap and celebration

Thank you to everyone who participated in #Lovember2024! The first year of the romance writing challenge may have come to an end, but there’s much to talk about. Here you’ll find the #Lovember2024 recap and what to expect next. Let’s start with the event itself, before moving on to how I’m celebrating the success of #Lovember2024. #Lovember2024 recap I’ve been thrilled to hear about how you’ve used the #Lovember2024 writing prompts to write more. From poetry to writing groups, it’s been lovely to see how creative everyone has been. Thank you to all of the support on social media, whether… Read More »#Lovember2024 recap and celebration

#Lovember: a 30-day romance writing challenge

#Lovember2024 romance writing challenge

Welcome to the first #Lovember writing challenge! This is a romance writing challenge taking place every November where you can write your heart out. #Lovember2024 is all about love and romance: self-love, romantic love, platonic love, familial love, and more. While romance is the main genre focused on, anyone can use the #Lovember prompts to inspire a story, no matter the genre they’re writing in. There are 30 word prompts, one for each day of November, as well as 5 storyline prompts and 7 character prompts. Every prompt is optional – do as many or as few as you like.… Read More »#Lovember2024 romance writing challenge

Everything you need to know about NaNoWriMo in the UK

Finding motivation to write and others to write with can be a bit of a struggle in the UK, especially if you live outside of major towns and cities. While there are many writing groups online, nothing quite compares to NaNoWriMo. A worldwide writing challenge, NaNoWriMo is full of writers striving for a major goal: to write 50,000 words in a single month. Popular with novel writers, the challenge was initially set up to make a big start (or even to fully complete) a novel manuscript. Primarily based in the United States, NaNoWriMo is becoming more popular every year. So… Read More »Everything you need to know about NaNoWriMo in the UK

17 alternatives to NaNoWriMo to help you write more

National Novel Writing Month was a writing challenge, word tracker, and writing community all in one. While there are no alternatives to NaNoWriMo that encompass all three, I’ve put together a list of websites and ideas to help you write more. NaNoWriMo doesn’t work for everyone, whether because you simply don’t have to time or you’re not writing a novel. These alternatives will help you meet whatever writing goal you want to set for yourself. Never heard of NaNoWriMo? Check out everything you need to know about NaNoWriMo. 2024 update: I wrote this before safeguarding issues with NaNoWriMo were highlighted,… Read More »17 alternatives to NaNoWriMo to help you write more