Tim Clare’s Couch to 80K writing podcast is a delightful, intense, encouraging eight-week journey towards writing a novel. For the best experience, go into it blind; all you need to know is that it’s good and it’s appropriate for any experience level. If you want to know more, keep reading, but be aware that here be spoilers.
This podcast provides eight weeks of daily writing exercises, aiming to get you—whether you’re a beginner or a burned-out published author—well on your way to finishing a novel. Each episode is about 20 minutes long, and includes 10 minutes of silence during which you do the day’s exercise. (The final week has a slightly different structure, but the episodes are still about the same length.)
By the way, 80K represents the concept of a novel, not the number of words you’ll actually write during the course. That’s not possible at the speed of human typing, nor longhand, which he recommends.
Most of us go days without writing anything by hand, and when we finally need to jot something…
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