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Finding Time to Write

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Finding Time to Write is the first exercise from the 4 week procrastination-busting online bootcamp, designed to get you writing again.

Get Writing! A 4-Week Online Bootcamp
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So. You love to write and want to be writing, but your work has stalled, right? You have no inspiration, aren’t sure what you’d write about or are procrastinating.

You could be just starting to write or a published author or a non-fiction writer struggling with fiction. You might live in London, Washington or in the Tuscan countryside. Your situation doesn’t matter; what does is that you don’t quite seem able to sit down and start. It’s time to make a change. This bootcamp is for you.

I procrastinate. A lot. But I’ve worked out that I find it easier and get more done working alongside other people and sharing progress. So that’s what this bootcamp will do for our writing.

What You’ll Get :

The bootcamp runs for 4 weeks, from Monday 4th July – Sunday 31st July
Online accountability for daily support from team-mates who really get it and setting weekly goals.
I’ll be in the forum most days and doing the tasks and check-ins alongside you.
Daily writing task email, plus tools and cheerleading.
Structured 4-week programme taking you from tiny, easy writing tasks to writing 500 words a day on a short story that you have devised and planned on the bootcamp.

What You’ll Walk Away With:

You’ll feel supported, creative and inspired with a clearer idea of where you’re going. You’ll feel in control, able to sit down and just write.
That all-important writing habit. Writing will be part of your daily life, something you make time for.
A set of tools to get you unstuck in the future.
A notebook full of ideas – some will even be usable!
You will have written or be well on your way to completing a short story. How many stories, short or otherwise, have you completed in the last couple of months?

The procrastination-busting bootcamp costs £97; I have no current plans to run it again. So my question is, how much does writing matter to you? What is following your dreams worth?

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Week By Week Guide.

You’ll be able to track your writing progress throughout the 4 weeks visually and each week we’ll share our progress using a technique designed to help you feel more in control and happier about your writing.

WEEK 1: Exploring and finding what works for you. Find time to write and set appointments. Explore why you write and what you want. Start capturing ideas in inspiration notebook and start daily writing tasks very gently, in timed bursts. Start using the tracking and accountability tools.

WEEK 2: Focusing on writing and what you already have. Longer daily writing exercises. Notebook mining and idea salvage exercise.

WEEK 3: Developing ideas. Pick one idea to explore in more depth during daily writing exercises. Brainstorm and outline the idea. Use this to shape a short story and write your own goals week 4.

WEEK 4: Writing your story. Break your short story into achievable chunks to create your own daily writing tasks (approx 500 words per day). Set post-bootcamp goals and break them down.

This bootcamp is NOT for You if:

You’re happily writing every day. It’s for those of us who need a little support to kickstart things.
If you’re looking for a magic solution. I can’t do the work for you. You need to want to make the most of an opportunity to change your habits.
You want a class/official critiques/publishing training. I can point you in the right direction, but the bootcamp is entirely focused on the act of writing. Nothing else matters ifyou aren’t writing. Sharing work and giving/getting critiques within the group is encouraged to help us all improve, but you don’t have to take part.
You want to excavate your past and find the demons who stopped you writing. Again, I can point you in the right direction, but I’m interested in getting writers to build their futures and take action.

It’s about just doing it, about using the power of small steps support networks and using a framework of tasks and targets to show you that you CAN do it, that you have everything you need already and that the moment you start it all becomes easier.

Want to get writing? Need some juicy bootcamp goodness to get you there? Come on in.

Because you’ll regret it if in 6 month’s time you’re STILL making the same exuses and haven’t made any progress.

And because what else are you going to do with that time anyway? I don’t want you to be slaving away through the long July evenings instead of drinking pimms at a rooftop bar with friends. We’re aiming to make writing an integral part of your life so that you can go out and enjoy all that other stuff without guilt.

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GUARANTEE: If you aren’t completely satisfied, just let me know by the end of the bootcamp and I’ll refund your money. However. You will need to send me your completed tasks, both writing and preparation/other to prove that you’ve done the work and put everything into action before you decided it really doesn’t work for you. The whole point of the bootcamp is to get you writing, and it requires you to do the work in order to get results. But if you’ve done everything and it’s still not for you, then I’d hate for you to be dissatisfied and will refund you immediately.