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Become a Writer in 30 Days: Join the 50K Words Challenge
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Become a Writer in 30 Days: Join the 50K Words Challenge

Join the national novel writing month challenge in November or any other time. Prepare, write, build a new identity.
Created bySilja Paulus
Last updated 2/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Create a writing routine for yourself
  • Set up for success as a practising writer
  • Get 50K words done within a set timeline of 30 days
  • Know the best writing routines and tricks for you
  • Develop a writing toolkit, personalised for your needs

Course content

4 sections • 21 lectures • 2h 18m total length

  • Welcome to the Course!7:03

    Welcome to this writing course! In this lesson, you will learn a bit more about my background and what we are going to do together.

  • What is NaNoWriMo?6:59

    What is National Novel Writing Month - NaNoWriMo? Who invented it? Why is it needed? Learn about this special concept that was invented in 1999!

  • Course structure: what to expect from this course?11:48

    Find out how to prepare for the writing month and how the writing weeks will roll out for you during this course. In this lesson, I will tell you all about the course structure, so you'd know what to expect.

    Your course workbook is attached here. Download it and use it for doing the exercises. You can also find a quick reference to the number of words you should reach on specific days to keep on track.

  • Discover your WHY. Set the intention for this writing month.8:13

    Explore your reasons to write and define one that stands out. This is your purpose. This is your big WHY.

  • Unearth the story within. WHAT do you want to write about?5:10

    Discover the story within you that is waiting to get out. It could be your own or a story of someone you know. Ask, listen carefully, and the story will present itself. In this lesson, I will tell you one way to find it.

  • Story structure. Set up the main event and the story arc.9:10

    List all the events that can happen to your characters. Define the main event. Find out which events need to happen to get to the main event and which ones should be happening after the main thing. Build a story arc that includes all these crucial events. This will be your main supportive structure for the writing month.

Requirements

  • Be willing to dedicate yourself to 50K words
  • Be enthusiastic about 30-day challenges
  • A story in you wants to be written
  • You are ready to practice writing
  • You can let go of perfectionism: write, do not edit

Description

Have you always wanted to be a writer?

Do you have a story bubbling inside you, waiting to be let out?

Are you ready to commit yourself for one month and really do it?


You can do all this in just 30 days. You can do all this in just 50,000 words. Globally, this challenge is called NaNoWriMo - the National Novel Writing Month. You can do it in November when people across the world are doing it. Or... you can do it any other time. It's your story. You decide. You decide if you really want to test out if there's a writer inside you, waiting to be revealed. Why not start right now?

This course gets you ready to test-drive the identity of a writer. You will get all set up to get your story down in a specific framework. Yes. You have ONLY 30 days to get the first draft done. Or look at it like this: you have 30 magical days to get it done. It's totally possible.


This course is for you, if:


  • you want to build a strong writing habit

  • you want to have specific tools and writing routines in place

  • you want to improve your writing skills (50K words of practice really does that!)

  • you want to get the story written that has been haunting you

  • you like 30-day challenges and structures

  • you are thinking of becoming a writer

  • you want to know how to build up a story in a simple way

  • you want to get very clear about your writing WHY

I will help you with all this and much more!

Personally, I have done the challenge multiple times and ended up with several first drafts of stories. But it's not just about the draft and getting the story down. Writing can also be therapy for you as well as a healing journey. If something has been haunting you for a long time, maybe try writing it down, try writing it out. See how it feels when you no longer hold on to it.

I've always been fascinated by the personality and identity of a writer. I am interested in peeking at what's going on behind the scenes. That's why I'm now more focused on building structures for other people's writing journeys. Building supportive structures just like this course here.

I've been writing almost all my life since I was 8 years old. Stories came to me naturally. I saw stories everywhere. I was also the child who kept writing her own Christmas plays and acting them out (with my sister). Throughout high school, I wrote stories, essays, and poems and submitted them to competitions whenever I could. I won some of them. Later, I fulfilled my dream of studying abroad and did my MA in the United Kingdom, at Bath Spa University. I went to study creative writing because this is not taught in Estonia where I come from. Years went by. I used my creativity in translation, copywriting, technical texts, blog posts, articles, and recipes... but my main passion, which I'm slowly finding out for myself, is writing about writing. Teaching people. Showing them how it could be done. Guiding you.

Let me be your guide. Let me help you with your first draft of something that could become very big. You never know if you never try.

Ready? Let's WRITE!


Who this course is for:

  • Anyone interested in creative writing
  • Anyone who wants to let go of perfectionism and just get it done

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