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Join the Write Here Write Now Character Challenge!

Do you want to be inspired to write daily? Make progress on your WIP? Perhaps you want to remember the joy you have for the written word? Or even get some guidance on what the heck to do next with your first draft?!

We’re bringing back our super successful Write Here, Right Now Five Day Character Challenge (check out the testimonials below!) Run via a private Facebook group, it is aimed at getting you out of your head and writing regularly and consistently, and costs just €35 for the full week of challenges and coaching.

Run by a Number One bestselling author and a journalist and coach, it’s designed to overcome blocks and give you invaluable hints and tips to make your writing flow.

And it really works!

Our last five day challenge in May was was full of energy, it was busy, it was motivating, inspiring and had our participants delighted with what they achieved with us in one week.

Are you always promising to write more, but not delivering? Do you spend all your time thinking about writing, dreaming about writing, doing the odd bit of writing but getting overwhelmed and lost in a haze of can I? Should I? Will I? Questions that leave you going around in circles and getting more and more dejected and NOT WRITING?!

Then do not waste another second! Sign up for the Writers Ink WRITE HERE, WRITE NOW Character Challenge, find out the key elements of how to write fabulous characters and start to turn your writing dreams into reality.

Our CHALLENGE STARTS ON Monday 3rd August 2020

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Once payment is received, you’ll be taken to a page that gives you tips for making the most of the challenge and a link to the private Facebook group. You will be admitted to the group at 3pm on Friday 31st July – the challenge will start on Monday 3rd August – get ready! Places are limited so don’t leave yours to chance.

This challenge is hosted by Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin, aka Number One bestselling author Sam Blake, and journalist and NLP coach Maria McHale.

What happens during the 5 Day Challenge?
This 5 Day Challenge will focus on the life blood of great fiction – character.

Each day there will be one daily task, this will take between 10-20 minutes to complete (you can devote as much time as you wish). Paste your piece into the appropriate section and you will see how your fellow writers have approached the same challenge. Read, enjoy and critique the individual pieces alongside Sam Blake who will also be giving on the spot feedback on a broad selection of each day’s entries.

Running for 5 days from the 3rd to the 7th of August 2020, this challenge is guaranteed to get you writing and this time we’re focusing on the life blood of all fiction: character.

To truly make your characters work, you need a thorough understanding of who they are and what is driving them. That’s the objective of this challenge – to get to the heart of your work, to make you think and to show you how to improve your writing technique at the same time.

We’re going to help you get up close and personal with character development tasks that will breathe life into your stories. This challenge’s character tasks will help you work out how to create characters we can fall in love with, you’ll find out how to define who your characters are, what makes them tick and what motivates them so that you can bring them truly to life.

Leave your work in progress on the backburner for a few days and take a fresh look at how you approach your story, we’ll be getting you to roll up your sleeves and showing you techniques to really bring your fictional characters to life! Stretch your creative wings and expand your writing skills with peer and mentor critique, plus exercises that will get your imagination sparking. This challenge aims to help you create characters that get noticed, as well as boost your motivation.

You’ll be given EXCLUSIVE access to our private challenge members only Facebook group, along with everyone else taking part in the challenge – safe to say our last participants found this to be a fabulously motivating and inspiring community. Places are limited so don’t hang around!

Here’s what our last participants had to say…

Every day Vanessa and Maria will share one action item in the group for you to complete and you can then post your results in the comments for feedback if you wish, and the rest of the group can see how you got on.

Who are we?
Bestselling author Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin writes under the pen name Sam Blake and her latest book, Keep Your Eyes on Me hit the top of the Irish book charts in January and spent 8 weeks in the top ten! She is also Ireland’s leading literary scout, the founder of The Inkwell Group and of the online national writing resources magazine www.writing.ie

Maria McHale is a journalist and communications consultant and works with clients who want to get noticed and tell their story – from entrepreneurs to emerging authors – she writes regularly for the Irish Times and has written for most of the leading UK newspapers and magazines too.

Together we run the Writers Ink community, for writers of any genre, connecting you with other writers experiencing the same challenges. The group has a monthly subscription and offers peer support and mentoring to members, curated resources will help you improve your writing. Members get accurate industry standard advice and help. A weekly AMA addresses specific concerns on problem areas, and a wide range of expert guests to give you the best advice available. Members can post writing samples to get feedback and encouragement from their peers, and expert advice from Vanessa. We can tell you more about it at the end of the challenge.

What does it cost?
The 5 day challenge has a one off payment of €35.

The 5 Day Challenge includes 5 daily tasks with tips sheets and bonus content daily to kickstart your writing and hone your skills. Via exclusive video, through discussion and critique, we’ve got tons of info for you. Vanessa and Maria will be live on Facebook every evening to discuss the task and answer your questions in 5 x one hour sessions. They are all recorded so you can watch back if you aren’t able to join in.

We want people doing the challenge to DO the tasks and get the best from the group. It’s easy to sign up for a free challenge and not do the work, you’ll be getting exceptional value and expert help over the challenge week and we want to avoid lurkers! A payment gateway keeps the trolls out and we’ll be very fast to block if there is any offensive behaviour – this is a safe place to improve and explore your writing goals.

To join, make your payment below and you’ll be taken through to the Facebook group which opens on Friday 31st July – the challenge kicks off on Monday 3rd August 2020 for five days. We can guarantee that you’ll get a full dose of inspiration, support and motivation over the 5 days, just read what our previous participants had to say!

See you on the inside!

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