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goals_on_dwThere are all kinds of writing challenges and goals that people like to do. Some are individual, others are group events. Some are all year, others shorter. Some have speculative fiction themes, others are ordinary. They span a great many different formats including but not limited to fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and fanwriting. Here are some for your inspiration. On Dreamwidth, see communities for Writing. Note that some like getyourwordsout makes regular checkin posts for your writing projects.
You can pick whichever challenge(s) you want to set as a goal in 2025 and reply with a comment. Below the list of challenges is a short form for listing which you have chosen. Make a post in your blog like "I signed up for the Writing challenge ingoals_on_dw" -- or list the specific challenge if you're doing an official one somewhere else instead of a personal one here. Then make a tag for it like "Writing Challenge" and put that on the post; it should stick that way. Check your Interests page to see if you have Writing, Fiction, Meta, Science Fiction, Fanfic, etc. listed there, which helps people find you. You don't have to sign up to participate, it just helps spread the word and attract more readers.
See also the Fannish 50 challenge, which simply aims to post fifty entries on any topic in fandom. If you want to write the captain's logs of an alternate Enterprise, analyze the social dynamics of Hobbiton, describe the architecture Hogwarts, or review every book you read all year, go for it. You can even double-count anything that applies to two or more goals, e.g.getyourwordsout and Fannish 50.
Do you know of any other writing challenges in 2025? Share a link so they can be added to the list of options.
Challenges
* 2025 Get Started Right Writing Challenge: Guidelines
The 2025 Get Started Right Writing Challenge is a 10-day challenge from January 1 to January 10, 2025. Each day, I will provide a task (a task that I will also be completing), and it will be up to writers to finish that task before they take on the next one.
* Writing Contests in 2025
* 4thewords Special Events
Participate in realtime community events. Celebrate with fellow writers the arrival of limited time events for special occasions throughout the year.
Love Festival: February
Expedition: April
Pride Festival: July
Teaco Festival: September
New Release Area: August
Halloween Party: October
Write Fest: November
Winter Wonderland: December
* AcWriMo
Academic Writing Month, or AcWriMo for short, is a month-long academic write-a-thon that happens every November.
Inspired by the amazing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), it caters to the specific needs of academic writers at all stages of their career (from undergrads to the most distinguished of professors). It’s hosted by us -– PhD2Published -– and throughout the month we share dedicated blog posts about academic writing and literally thousands of tips via Twitter and Facebook.
* 2025 Community Calendar inallbingo
A new fest opens each month, although you can play any card at any time. All media and sizes, all fandoms and original work welcome, so you can always make your fills with writing if you wish.
*bigbangindex -- Big Bang Index
Index of Big Bang-type challenges.
Find new writing challenges here periodically.
*comment_fic -- Bite Sized Bits of Fic.
Anyone can write a prompt. Or two. Or twenty.
Make sure your comment is comment-sized. If a prompt inspires you to commit greater fic,
feel free to link to that fic with an excerpt.
*communal_creators -- Create, Commiserate, Compete
Writing, art, podfic, meta, vidding, and other creative efforts.
Welcome to Communal Creators, a place to band together to help each other start, work on, or finish a project in September and October. Why those months? Because while National Novel Writing Month in November made sense, once upon a time, it is a very inconvenient time to many people. Backing the timeline out to after school starts but before the push of the holidays for many was my intention.
Timeline will be that the official creation period will run from September 15th to October 15th. You CAN use projects that existed before this point, but only log the effort that goes into it during the creation period. You may also double-dip -- use this time to finish, begin, work on things for other events!
What are acceptable creations? ANYTHING.
* D&December: Write something related to fantasy roleplaying every day in December. That prompt list has two subsections for you to roll random encounters with words!
* Escapril 2025
it’s that time again, folks.. Escapril is almost upon us!! if you’re not familiar, Escapril is a month-long poetry writing frenzy in April. poets use the prompts provided to write & share a new poem every day of the month.
*fandomweekly -- Fandom Weekly
Multifandom weekly short fic challenge.
*fandomcalendar -- The Fandom Calendar
Bulletin board for fests, big bangs, memes, cons and any other fan-related activity.
Find new writing challenges here all the time.
* Fantasy February 2025 prompt list!
Write something fantasy themed every day in February.
*ferunwrimo -- Feral Unhinged Writing Month
A rolling monthly writing challenge for Feral Writers.
Any project, any goal. There are no minimum word count requirements & you don’t need to start a new project. What do YOU feel is an unhinged, feral goal for you to strive for? Do that.
* #FirstDraftFriday
Get inspired and then get drafting a new picture book manuscript. This is the introductory post from 2024.
* Funuary Prompts for January bykitarella_imagines
*getyourwordsout
Want to ensure you keep creating, even when the world is on fire? Write with Get Your Words Out, a year-long writing challenge and supportive community dedicated to helping you get your words out.
Choose from 13 pledge levels. Sign-ups for 2025 are open through January 15, 2025.
* InCoWriMo
International Correspondence Month connects letter writers around the world with a frenzy of letters, cards, postcards, and any bizarre art project you can fit into an envelope. There are two rules: write 30 letters in 30 days, and they all have to be snail mail. Also, it takes place in February.
*inkingitout
Challenge yourself to write 75000 words or more in 2025!
Sign ups close Noon GMT on 2nd January 2025.
Read the announcement here.
* June of Doom 2025
By popular vote, here be the 2025 June of Doom prompt list for your doomsday planning!
Please feel free to participate with original or fan works of any kind (writing, photos, gifs, mood boards, videos, songs, whatever creative medium your heart desires!). You can do one or all of the prompts on any given day, and if none are to your liking, check out the alternate prompts!
* Junicorn: Write a unicorn every day in June. Here is a Junicorn prompt list.
*marchmetamatterschallenge
Write new meta to post in March. Backup and archive your older meta. Share your meta accomplishments from the past year with other fans of meta.
* MerMay
MerMay is a month-long celebration of creativity, community and above all… MERMAIDS.
Various organizations and individuals participate. Here's a Facebook page for posting MerMay content.
* Moral May Writing Challenge
Write things based on moral prompts like "Look Before You Leap." There are spare prompts in case you dislike some of the main ones.
* NaBloPoMo: National Blog Posting Month
The goal of NaBloPoMo is for participants to write a post a day for an entire month.
Although November was the biggest month for NaBloPoMo (with prizes and everything!) people could take up the challenge of writing a post a day during any month.
* NaHaiWriMo: National Haiku Writing Month
Write one haiku a day for the month of February! Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s shortest genre of poetry. Join poets around the world who pledge to write at least one haiku a day for National Haiku Writing Month during the year’s shortest month. Or write haiku every day of every month, all year round, on the NaHaiWriMo site on Facebook, with daily writing prompts to inspire you. Find us on Facebook, and click the following links to find out more (with more to explore at the bottom of this page)—including why haiku in English doesn’t have to be 5-7-5 syllables.
* NaNoProgMo: National Novel Progress Month
Wherever you're at in your novel writing, commit with us to a certain amount of time each day in November to work on your novel's progress. You get to choose how much time you pledge, whether that's 15 minutes or 3 hours. Sneak it in during naptimes, playdates, or after the kids go to bed. Ask a partner or friend to help you so you can find opportunities to write. See this as a gift you're giving yourself: the time to be a writer, to pursue the dream you've had for so long.
* NaNoWriMo
National Novel Writing Month happens in November. You have 30 days to write a novel of 50,000+ words.
On Dreamwidth, seenano_writers.
* NaPiBoWriWee: National Picture Book Writing Week
Until May 1st of every year, you are allowed to brainstorm, research, take notes/outline your picture book ideas. But NO writing.
From May 1-7, you must try to write 7 picture books in 7 days.
* NaPoWriMo: National Poetry Writing Month
NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April.
*newyearcntdown -- New Year's Countdown
A once-a-year one-a-day challenge!
-As stated above, we are a December challenge. Therefore, this challenge runs from December 1st to December 31st. Posting starts the 1st and ends the 31st.
-It is prompt based. We can give you a prompt table or you can make your own. You'll let us know in your sign up!
-We welcome all types of works. Original or fanwork, art or written; everything is welcome! You can also do a combination, such as doing some art and some poetry. It's up to you!
-Sign ups are mandatory. In addition to making sure you have the tags you need, this is so we can keep track of who is posting and whether we'll be waiting for you when the round up posts happens.
* NovelEmber
A month-long online writing challenge during November! Commit to writing 50,000 words during the month, and claim a World Anvil badge and printable certificate. You can also take part as a rebel with your own goals. Here's everything you need to know to take part!
* Novel Quest
A free, annual, motivational challenge to writers to complete their novel-writing-or-editing goal (e.g., 50,000 words, 50 hours of editing, or some combination of writing and editing) in a month of your choosing. There can be regional in-person, virtual, and hybrid events to help participants stay motivated while having fun in the process.
*pinchhits -- Advertising pinch hits for fannish events.
Opportunities for fast writing appear periodically.
*potterfests -- Potter Fests
Promoting Harry Potter Fests, Communities, Challenges, Exchanges, Big Bangs, etc.
Find new writing challenges here frequently.
* Pride Month Writing Challenge: Write QUILTBAG literature every day in June. Here is a PriWriMo prompt list and a QUILTBAG one. This one has general and fannish prompts. Fannish lists may focus on things like original characters or characters/ships.
* Shut Up & Write!
A totally free community-driven nonprofit initiative designed to help writers get their writing done.
100,000+ Writers, 1500+ Weekly Events, 400+ Cities, 60+ Countries.
* Smaugust -- Write a dragon every day in August. This dragon prompt list gives 31.
*snowflake_challenge
Always includes a challenge to post a new fanfic. Many of the other challenges involve writing a blog post of some sort.
* Spooktober: Write something scary every day in October. Here is a Spooktober prompt list.
* The Storystorm challenge for picture book writers is to create 30 story ideas in 31 days. You don’t have to write a manuscript (but you can if the mood strikes). You don’t need potential best-seller ideas. You might think of a clever title. Or a name for a character. Or just a silly thing like "purple polka-dot pony." The object is to heighten your idea-generating senses. Ideas may build upon other ideas.
*sunshine_revival
If you didn't already know, the Sunshine Revival is a companion event to thesnowflake_challenge -- challenges will be posted throughout the month of July for community members to participate in and share. If this sounds interesting, please follow this community now to keep up to date with news as we get closer to July.
*tenminutesaday
This community began as a writing challenge between two friends to encourage each other to establish a habit of writing for at least ten minutes a day (hence the name), and you are welcome to look in and join us! Members are encouraged (but never required) to post fills for the challenges. This is a low-pressure challenge comm: we're not keeping score and there are no penalties for not meeting a challenge.
Note: The founders of this community are primarily Doctor Who fanfic writers, so the challenges will often be biased toward DW, Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures, Class, and the expanded universe, especially Big Finish. You are welcome to change anything to suit your fandoms or interests.
Establish a habit of writing ten minutes a day by providing focused writing prompts for producing a short scene.
* WorldEmber
31 Days 10,000 Words. The ultimate worldbuilding challenge.
WorldEmber is our yearly December event. You are challenged to write 10,000 words worth of articles in 31 days.
* Writing Month
So far this December 2024, 61 authors have written a total of 642,504 words so far towards a total goal of 1,928,870 words.
In January 2025, 7 authors plan to write a total of 148,500 words towards their projects.
Pick your own goal that best challenges you and write your novel, short stories, poems, stage or screen play, blog posts, or any other writing project as part of a growing community of writers.
Writing Trackers
These help you measure your progress with your writing goals or manage deadlines.
* 10 Best Due Date Tracking Software to Meet Deadlines
* MyWriteClub
Crush your writing goals.
Set a goal or two, and invite your friends to be your cheering section. Keep track of your progress as you work toward your goals. Your friends will be able to see the progress you're making and encourage you.
* Pacemaker Planner
The Only Goal Planner that understands Authors, Writers, Editors and Translators.
Plan out your entire year and manage multiple deadlines without spreadsheets!
* Top Contenders: Free Word Count Websites Unveiled
* TrackBear
TrackBear is an app that helps you track your writing projects. You can track words, chapters, pages, and time. That makes it a perfect fit no matter whether you're writing a novel, fanfiction, poetry, a webcomic, or anything else! You can also set writing targets, track your writing habits, and set up leaderboards to include your friends. No matter what, TrackBear is here to support you, however you write.
*ushobwri runs all through the year and has challenge months:
February is Let's get WiP-ed into shape (working/finishing a WiP).
May is New Frontiers Challenge.
October is Monster Fest.
November is daily posting.
*whenisitdue -- Challenge Deadline Directory
Fests, fanworks, deadlines.
If you want to commit to a writing goal for next year, then you can sign up with a comment under this post using the form below:
Name:
My writing challenge entries will be posted at: (place your tag URL here)
My format: (original fiction, fanfic, meta, etc.)
My genre(s): (fantasy, science fiction, mystery, etc.)
My length(s) (drabble, short stories, novel, etc.)
My theme: (mixed / single / none, and what it is if any)
My journal status: (friends only / friends only except public challenge posts / filters / open)
Other details: (main fandoms, standard content warnings, seeking friends, etc.)
Anything else you want to share:
Participants
*matsushima at pineisland in various tags
Fanfiction.
.
getyourwordsout makes regular checkin posts for your writing projects.You can pick whichever challenge(s) you want to set as a goal in 2025 and reply with a comment. Below the list of challenges is a short form for listing which you have chosen. Make a post in your blog like "I signed up for the Writing challenge in
goals_on_dw" -- or list the specific challenge if you're doing an official one somewhere else instead of a personal one here. Then make a tag for it like "Writing Challenge" and put that on the post; it should stick that way. Check your Interests page to see if you have Writing, Fiction, Meta, Science Fiction, Fanfic, etc. listed there, which helps people find you. You don't have to sign up to participate, it just helps spread the word and attract more readers.See also the Fannish 50 challenge, which simply aims to post fifty entries on any topic in fandom. If you want to write the captain's logs of an alternate Enterprise, analyze the social dynamics of Hobbiton, describe the architecture Hogwarts, or review every book you read all year, go for it. You can even double-count anything that applies to two or more goals, e.g.
getyourwordsout and Fannish 50.Do you know of any other writing challenges in 2025? Share a link so they can be added to the list of options.
Challenges
* 2025 Get Started Right Writing Challenge: Guidelines
The 2025 Get Started Right Writing Challenge is a 10-day challenge from January 1 to January 10, 2025. Each day, I will provide a task (a task that I will also be completing), and it will be up to writers to finish that task before they take on the next one.
* Writing Contests in 2025
* 4thewords Special Events
Participate in realtime community events. Celebrate with fellow writers the arrival of limited time events for special occasions throughout the year.
Love Festival: February
Expedition: April
Pride Festival: July
Teaco Festival: September
New Release Area: August
Halloween Party: October
Write Fest: November
Winter Wonderland: December
* AcWriMo
Academic Writing Month, or AcWriMo for short, is a month-long academic write-a-thon that happens every November.
Inspired by the amazing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), it caters to the specific needs of academic writers at all stages of their career (from undergrads to the most distinguished of professors). It’s hosted by us -– PhD2Published -– and throughout the month we share dedicated blog posts about academic writing and literally thousands of tips via Twitter and Facebook.
* 2025 Community Calendar in
allbingo A new fest opens each month, although you can play any card at any time. All media and sizes, all fandoms and original work welcome, so you can always make your fills with writing if you wish.
*
bigbangindex -- Big Bang IndexIndex of Big Bang-type challenges.
Find new writing challenges here periodically.
*
comment_fic -- Bite Sized Bits of Fic.Anyone can write a prompt. Or two. Or twenty.
Make sure your comment is comment-sized. If a prompt inspires you to commit greater fic,
feel free to link to that fic with an excerpt.
*
communal_creators -- Create, Commiserate, CompeteWriting, art, podfic, meta, vidding, and other creative efforts.
Welcome to Communal Creators, a place to band together to help each other start, work on, or finish a project in September and October. Why those months? Because while National Novel Writing Month in November made sense, once upon a time, it is a very inconvenient time to many people. Backing the timeline out to after school starts but before the push of the holidays for many was my intention.
Timeline will be that the official creation period will run from September 15th to October 15th. You CAN use projects that existed before this point, but only log the effort that goes into it during the creation period. You may also double-dip -- use this time to finish, begin, work on things for other events!
What are acceptable creations? ANYTHING.
* D&December: Write something related to fantasy roleplaying every day in December. That prompt list has two subsections for you to roll random encounters with words!
* Escapril 2025
it’s that time again, folks.. Escapril is almost upon us!! if you’re not familiar, Escapril is a month-long poetry writing frenzy in April. poets use the prompts provided to write & share a new poem every day of the month.
*
fandomweekly -- Fandom WeeklyMultifandom weekly short fic challenge.
*
fandomcalendar -- The Fandom CalendarBulletin board for fests, big bangs, memes, cons and any other fan-related activity.
Find new writing challenges here all the time.
* Fantasy February 2025 prompt list!
Write something fantasy themed every day in February.
*
ferunwrimo -- Feral Unhinged Writing MonthA rolling monthly writing challenge for Feral Writers.
Any project, any goal. There are no minimum word count requirements & you don’t need to start a new project. What do YOU feel is an unhinged, feral goal for you to strive for? Do that.
* #FirstDraftFriday
Get inspired and then get drafting a new picture book manuscript. This is the introductory post from 2024.
* Funuary Prompts for January by
kitarella_imagines*
getyourwordsoutWant to ensure you keep creating, even when the world is on fire? Write with Get Your Words Out, a year-long writing challenge and supportive community dedicated to helping you get your words out.
Choose from 13 pledge levels. Sign-ups for 2025 are open through January 15, 2025.
* InCoWriMo
International Correspondence Month connects letter writers around the world with a frenzy of letters, cards, postcards, and any bizarre art project you can fit into an envelope. There are two rules: write 30 letters in 30 days, and they all have to be snail mail. Also, it takes place in February.
*
inkingitoutChallenge yourself to write 75000 words or more in 2025!
Sign ups close Noon GMT on 2nd January 2025.
Read the announcement here.
* June of Doom 2025
By popular vote, here be the 2025 June of Doom prompt list for your doomsday planning!
Please feel free to participate with original or fan works of any kind (writing, photos, gifs, mood boards, videos, songs, whatever creative medium your heart desires!). You can do one or all of the prompts on any given day, and if none are to your liking, check out the alternate prompts!
* Junicorn: Write a unicorn every day in June. Here is a Junicorn prompt list.
*
marchmetamatterschallenge Write new meta to post in March. Backup and archive your older meta. Share your meta accomplishments from the past year with other fans of meta.
* MerMay
MerMay is a month-long celebration of creativity, community and above all… MERMAIDS.
Various organizations and individuals participate. Here's a Facebook page for posting MerMay content.
* Moral May Writing Challenge
Write things based on moral prompts like "Look Before You Leap." There are spare prompts in case you dislike some of the main ones.
* NaBloPoMo: National Blog Posting Month
The goal of NaBloPoMo is for participants to write a post a day for an entire month.
Although November was the biggest month for NaBloPoMo (with prizes and everything!) people could take up the challenge of writing a post a day during any month.
* NaHaiWriMo: National Haiku Writing Month
Write one haiku a day for the month of February! Why February? Because it’s the shortest month, for the world’s shortest genre of poetry. Join poets around the world who pledge to write at least one haiku a day for National Haiku Writing Month during the year’s shortest month. Or write haiku every day of every month, all year round, on the NaHaiWriMo site on Facebook, with daily writing prompts to inspire you. Find us on Facebook, and click the following links to find out more (with more to explore at the bottom of this page)—including why haiku in English doesn’t have to be 5-7-5 syllables.
* NaNoProgMo: National Novel Progress Month
Wherever you're at in your novel writing, commit with us to a certain amount of time each day in November to work on your novel's progress. You get to choose how much time you pledge, whether that's 15 minutes or 3 hours. Sneak it in during naptimes, playdates, or after the kids go to bed. Ask a partner or friend to help you so you can find opportunities to write. See this as a gift you're giving yourself: the time to be a writer, to pursue the dream you've had for so long.
* NaNoWriMo
National Novel Writing Month happens in November. You have 30 days to write a novel of 50,000+ words.
On Dreamwidth, see
nano_writers.* NaPiBoWriWee: National Picture Book Writing Week
Until May 1st of every year, you are allowed to brainstorm, research, take notes/outline your picture book ideas. But NO writing.
From May 1-7, you must try to write 7 picture books in 7 days.
* NaPoWriMo: National Poetry Writing Month
NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April.
*
newyearcntdown -- New Year's CountdownA once-a-year one-a-day challenge!
-As stated above, we are a December challenge. Therefore, this challenge runs from December 1st to December 31st. Posting starts the 1st and ends the 31st.
-It is prompt based. We can give you a prompt table or you can make your own. You'll let us know in your sign up!
-We welcome all types of works. Original or fanwork, art or written; everything is welcome! You can also do a combination, such as doing some art and some poetry. It's up to you!
-Sign ups are mandatory. In addition to making sure you have the tags you need, this is so we can keep track of who is posting and whether we'll be waiting for you when the round up posts happens.
* NovelEmber
A month-long online writing challenge during November! Commit to writing 50,000 words during the month, and claim a World Anvil badge and printable certificate. You can also take part as a rebel with your own goals. Here's everything you need to know to take part!
* Novel Quest
A free, annual, motivational challenge to writers to complete their novel-writing-or-editing goal (e.g., 50,000 words, 50 hours of editing, or some combination of writing and editing) in a month of your choosing. There can be regional in-person, virtual, and hybrid events to help participants stay motivated while having fun in the process.
*
pinchhits -- Advertising pinch hits for fannish events.Opportunities for fast writing appear periodically.
*
potterfests -- Potter FestsPromoting Harry Potter Fests, Communities, Challenges, Exchanges, Big Bangs, etc.
Find new writing challenges here frequently.
* Pride Month Writing Challenge: Write QUILTBAG literature every day in June. Here is a PriWriMo prompt list and a QUILTBAG one. This one has general and fannish prompts. Fannish lists may focus on things like original characters or characters/ships.
* Shut Up & Write!
A totally free community-driven nonprofit initiative designed to help writers get their writing done.
100,000+ Writers, 1500+ Weekly Events, 400+ Cities, 60+ Countries.
* Smaugust -- Write a dragon every day in August. This dragon prompt list gives 31.
*
snowflake_challenge Always includes a challenge to post a new fanfic. Many of the other challenges involve writing a blog post of some sort.
* Spooktober: Write something scary every day in October. Here is a Spooktober prompt list.
* The Storystorm challenge for picture book writers is to create 30 story ideas in 31 days. You don’t have to write a manuscript (but you can if the mood strikes). You don’t need potential best-seller ideas. You might think of a clever title. Or a name for a character. Or just a silly thing like "purple polka-dot pony." The object is to heighten your idea-generating senses. Ideas may build upon other ideas.
*
sunshine_revivalIf you didn't already know, the Sunshine Revival is a companion event to the
snowflake_challenge -- challenges will be posted throughout the month of July for community members to participate in and share. If this sounds interesting, please follow this community now to keep up to date with news as we get closer to July.*
tenminutesadayThis community began as a writing challenge between two friends to encourage each other to establish a habit of writing for at least ten minutes a day (hence the name), and you are welcome to look in and join us! Members are encouraged (but never required) to post fills for the challenges. This is a low-pressure challenge comm: we're not keeping score and there are no penalties for not meeting a challenge.
Note: The founders of this community are primarily Doctor Who fanfic writers, so the challenges will often be biased toward DW, Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures, Class, and the expanded universe, especially Big Finish. You are welcome to change anything to suit your fandoms or interests.
Establish a habit of writing ten minutes a day by providing focused writing prompts for producing a short scene.
* WorldEmber
31 Days 10,000 Words. The ultimate worldbuilding challenge.
WorldEmber is our yearly December event. You are challenged to write 10,000 words worth of articles in 31 days.
* Writing Month
So far this December 2024, 61 authors have written a total of 642,504 words so far towards a total goal of 1,928,870 words.
In January 2025, 7 authors plan to write a total of 148,500 words towards their projects.
Pick your own goal that best challenges you and write your novel, short stories, poems, stage or screen play, blog posts, or any other writing project as part of a growing community of writers.
Writing Trackers
These help you measure your progress with your writing goals or manage deadlines.
* 10 Best Due Date Tracking Software to Meet Deadlines
* MyWriteClub
Crush your writing goals.
Set a goal or two, and invite your friends to be your cheering section. Keep track of your progress as you work toward your goals. Your friends will be able to see the progress you're making and encourage you.
* Pacemaker Planner
The Only Goal Planner that understands Authors, Writers, Editors and Translators.
Plan out your entire year and manage multiple deadlines without spreadsheets!
* Top Contenders: Free Word Count Websites Unveiled
* TrackBear
TrackBear is an app that helps you track your writing projects. You can track words, chapters, pages, and time. That makes it a perfect fit no matter whether you're writing a novel, fanfiction, poetry, a webcomic, or anything else! You can also set writing targets, track your writing habits, and set up leaderboards to include your friends. No matter what, TrackBear is here to support you, however you write.
*
ushobwri runs all through the year and has challenge months: February is Let's get WiP-ed into shape (working/finishing a WiP).
May is New Frontiers Challenge.
October is Monster Fest.
November is daily posting.
*
whenisitdue -- Challenge Deadline DirectoryFests, fanworks, deadlines.
If you want to commit to a writing goal for next year, then you can sign up with a comment under this post using the form below:
Name:
My writing challenge entries will be posted at: (place your tag URL here)
My format: (original fiction, fanfic, meta, etc.)
My genre(s): (fantasy, science fiction, mystery, etc.)
My length(s) (drabble, short stories, novel, etc.)
My theme: (mixed / single / none, and what it is if any)
My journal status: (friends only / friends only except public challenge posts / filters / open)
Other details: (main fandoms, standard content warnings, seeking friends, etc.)
Anything else you want to share:
Participants
*
matsushima at pineisland in various tagsFanfiction.
.
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Date: Wednesday, December 25th, 2024 01:59 am (UTC)I don't see a #FirstDraftFriday 2025 launch post yet but they're active - the last #FirstDraftFriday 2024 post went up on schedule and there's nothing to indicate it won't continue next year. It's a challenge to write the first draft of a picture book on the first Friday of every month.
I've never participated in 12x12 because I can't afford the fees, but if you've got $200 to spare ($400 for gold memberships, only available from your second year onwards) I know some people really find it a valuable community with useful resources for writing, revising, and querying (and, hopefully, publishing!) picture books.
I've never heard of NaPiBoWriWee before but I'm definitely going to participate this year!
Thank you!
Date: Wednesday, December 25th, 2024 02:17 am (UTC)>>I've never heard of NaPiBoWriWee before but I'm definitely going to participate this year!<<
Awesome! Fill out the little form at the bottom of the challenge post and that will help people find your entries.
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Date: Wednesday, December 25th, 2024 02:23 am (UTC)My writing challenge entries will be posted at:
My formats/genre(s): OC-centered fanfiction (Redwall, The Hunger Games, His Dark Materials); picture books; middle grade (low fantasy); "aromantic romance" (contemporary, low fantasy); poetry/short stories (SF/F)
My journal status: friends only for personal posts; writing (usually public) in
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Date: Wednesday, December 25th, 2024 02:49 am (UTC)Those sound like cool ideas, especially the aro stuff.
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Date: Saturday, December 28th, 2024 11:08 am (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: Wednesday, January 1st, 2025 08:47 am (UTC)You're welcome!
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Date: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 08:20 am (UTC)You're welcome!
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Date: Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 08:26 am (UTC)But yeah, I know that feel.
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Date: Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 01:12 pm (UTC)Too many people feel lonely and unwanted in the modern world, I wonder how that’s going to improve. We need real life communities back again, somehow.
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Date: Thursday, January 16th, 2025 08:42 am (UTC)Yay!
>>Wish I’d found it years ago, I’d never heard of it til about 18 months ago.<<
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>> Too many people feel lonely and unwanted in the modern world,<<
True. People have created a society that is terrible for humans.
>> I wonder how that’s going to improve. We need real life communities back again, somehow.<<
It will improve if and only if people choose to change things. Some people are working on it.
https://www.ic.org/
https://www.strongtowns.org/
I have a Wednesday rotation of Good News / Hard Things / Cuddle Party in my blog so people can just hang out and share what's going on in their lives. I've also written a lot of How To posts on improving community.
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Date: Thursday, January 16th, 2025 11:49 am (UTC)Thanks for those links. They are both American but I see that one has a few communities in Britain. Hopefully one will start up near me soon. It's nice to think that someone, somewhere is trying to improve the world for humans.
That sounds nice, I'm pretty wary of sharing my life details however. My life has basically been a rollercoaster for the last few years, I'm exhausted, it's been me defending my family against problem after problem after problem after problem...I know I'm not the only one though, everyone seems to be in the same situation these days.
This picture sums it up, I'm the lone warrior fighting the cavalry:
https://www.reddit.com/r/freefolk/comments/89dui0/i_still_think_this_battle_scene_best_depicted_a/