one page a day challenge

writing one page a day, every day, for a month #onepageadaychallenge

this is a writing challenge inspired by this quote by author stephen king “write a page a day, only 300 words, and in a year you have written a novel.”

in it's simplest form, this can be any form of writing - planning, drafting, editing - as long as it is a 'whole page worth' of writing.

i love how simple this is because - unlike a set word count - every page will have a different amount of words on it, and i think just aiming to fill up a page with whatever you need is a lot easier to achieve than a set word count.

and because this is based on pages, this is a hand-writing friendly writing challenge, which i know you can still count words when hand-writing but it's admittedly a lot more work and so, simply filling one page of a notebook is a much easier goal to achieve.

this is a great preptober exercise if you’re looking to do nanowrimo in november as well! 

i created this challenge, intending for it to go for the duration of october, but i intend to attempt to do this for 100 days... and possibly even the full 365 days. if that doesn’t sound intimidating, you are more than welcome to join in with me! 

i would love to see your posts under the #onepageadaychallenge tag which i will be tracking! 

anyone else competing in camp nanowrimo this july?? 

NanoWrimo! (what is it? how does it work?) here’s a rundown on all you need to know!

nanowrimo stands for national novel writing month. this takes place every november, there’s a website where you sign up and make a profile and join a global community of writers! 

the goal of nanowrimo? to write 50,000 words on your current work in progress (WIP) 50k in one month seems like a lot. for everyone better at maths than me, you’ve probably already realised that’s writing 1.7k words a day. roughly 12.5k a week.  for those of you who love a clear goal and something of a challenge, this is the dream! it’s super exciting and super fun! BUT if this seems like a lot, don’t let the number goal get to you too much! while it is definitely doable, the 50k goal can be taken lightly. you can sign up for the month and use that in itself as motivation to just make as much progress on your WIP as possible.

nanowrimo is intended for novel writers, but of course, you can work on anything you want! a poetry collection, scripts, essays, short stories - anything is welcome! nanowrimo actually updated their website/platform and now they have options for you to officially declare something other than a novel, which is great!

the community of writers that all do nano is one of its many perks. there are official nanowrimo forums, and of course, all the official social media sties. i love watching all the nanowrimo vlogs on youtube that writers post throughout the month (i would love to vlog the experience one year!). lots of people make group chats and discord servers too! nano even has regional write-ins, so if you sign up check with your city to see if people are meeting up to write together! and if your region doesn’t have a write-in organised, you could even get around to organising that yourself if you feel up to it!

for the few asks who were worried about this aspect, the community is of course not a necessity: you don’t have to talk or share your writing with anyone you don’t want to!  nanowrimo can really be as busy or as simple as you want it to be! and they have a ‘prep’ guide for anyone who maybe wants some help getting ready for the busy writing month ahead!

i will be doing nanowrimo this year, so message me or reply to this post if you are too! and if anyone is interested in a writing discord server, or even vlogs (?) let me know about that as well. and if there’s anything you want to know more about, of course feel free to send me an ask! 

links: nanowrimo site nano prep