30-Day Writing Bootcamp

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30-Day Writing Bootcamp

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Length

30 days

Location

Online

Writing Goal

Start writing

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30-Day Writing Bootcamp

Join us for 30 days of writing, with online lessons, tasks and tips to help you find focus and get to your desk every day.

Tutor

Anna Davis

Length

30 days

Location

Online

Writing Goal

Start writing

Our most-affordable course, trusted by over 2,000 budding writers.

Bestseller

Ready to start a new novel, or to have a go at putting pen to paper for the first time and see where it leads? Perhaps you’re determined to kick some new life into a work-in-progress that’s been languishing, unloved?

This has been such a gift for me! It's uncorked something I didn't realise was there and given me just enough direction to get things started.

John Carswell
Former 30-Day Writing Bootcamp student

If this sounds like you, then it’s time to enrol on our new 30-Day Writing Bootcamp for an energising and enriching 30 days of writing, supported by online lessons.

This bootcamp comprises teaching videos, tasks, writing tips and prompts – created, designed and delivered to you by CBC’s founder and MD, Anna Davis.

Set your own personal target for the bootcamp – whether that’s to write something every day, to achieve a desired word count by the end, to solve a thorny problem with a WIP – whatever works for your stage of writing. Acquire new skills through the lessons and try them out in the writing tasks (which can be used to generate lots of new pieces of writing or to progress your WIP).

Tutor

Anna Davis

Anna Davis is the founder and Director of the Curtis Brown Creative writing school. She is the author of five acclaimed novels which have been published in twenty languages. She has been a journalist and Guardian columnist, as well as a Curtis Brown literary agent. She taught creative writing at the University of Manchester and in many other settings before founding Curtis Brown Creative in 2011.

What does this bootcamp give you?

12 original teaching videos from Anna: Each video gives concise advice on a useful writing topic.
10 tailor-made writing tasks: Put the teaching into practice (these bigger writing exercises are set every three days).
20 writing prompts + tips: You’ll get a writing prompt and a writing tip every day (except on days when a more in-depth writing task has been set).
Written notes: Each video and writing task is supported by useful notes from Anna, to give further guidance.
Student forum: Find your writing community. Students are encouraged to share the results of their tasks in the secure, moderated forum and take a little time to read and offer brief positive feedback to other participants. Anna will also be posting messages of encouragement to the group every few days.

Bootcamp schedule

We suggest setting aside 30-45 minutes to respond to each daily writing task or prompt. You can use the bootcamp to write every day – or catch up later if your schedule doesn’t allow that.

Some students might be inspired to spend longer on certain writing exercises, others might skip certain prompts and focus on the 10 bigger tasks.

For those of you eager to dedicate more time to your writing, the bootcamp is a great accompaniment for any other writing projects you’re working on and can be done simultaneously with a CBC online course.

Day 1
Video lesson 1 – Warming up
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Day 2
Video lesson 2 – Hitting the ground running
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Day 3
Task – Hitting the ground running
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Day 4
Video lesson 3 – Why did they do that?
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Day 5
Task – Why did they do that?
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Day 6
Writing tip and today's task
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Day 7
Video lesson 4 – Opposing forces
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Day 8
Task – Opposing forces
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Day 9
Writing tip and today's prompt
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Day 10
Video lesson – See it from my perspective
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Day 11
Task – See it from my perspective
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Day 12
Writing tip and today's prompt
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Day 13
Video lesson 6 – Where the heck are we?
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Day 14
Task – Where the heck are we?
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Day 15
Writing tip and today's prompt
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Day 16
Video lesson 7 – Writing scenes
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Day 17
Task – Writing scenes
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Day 18
Writing tip and today’s prompt
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Day 19
Video lesson 8 – What lies beneath
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Day 20
Task – What lies beneath
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Day 21
Writing tip and today's prompt
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Day 22
Video lesson 9 – Inside and out
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Day 23
Task – Inside and out
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Day 24
Writing tip and today’s prompt
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Day 25
Video lesson 10 – Raising the stakes
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Day 26
Task – Raising the stakes
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Day 27
Writing tip and today's prompt
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Day 28
Video lesson 11 – The arc
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Day 29
Share your favourite task
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Day 30
Video lesson 12 - Farewell and keep going
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The 30-Day Writing Bootcamp doesn’t offer professional editorial feedback on individual work – to get feedback on your work, explore our broad range of courses and report services.

30-Day Writing Bootcamp – Vol 2

If you loved our original 30-Day Writing Bootcamp, you can now sign up for a second 30 days of online lessons, tasks and tips to re-energise your writing muscles.

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