Pushing yourself to write something every day just might unlock new creative doors — and writing with a supportive community of bloggers keeps you inspired and motivated.
If you’ve taken Writing 101 before: yes, these will be the same prompts and twists. Blogging U. courses always repeat unless we specifically indicate that a course is new.
This April, we’ll be offering Writing 101: Building a Blogging Habit. Writing 101 is a write-every-day challenge designed to help you create a writing habit and push you as a writer, while publishing posts that mesh with your blog’s focus. Read on to learn more, or jump right to the registration form.
What is Writing 101?
Who else is really building their writing habit?… I wake up multiple times each night to check the time and see if it’s time to get up and write because I’m so excited. I’ve never felt this way before! I think I’m in lurve.
Molly, Knocked Up Knocked Over
Writing 101 is a four-week course that runs from Monday, April 6, to Friday, May 1, 2015. Each weekday, you’ll get an assignment that includes a writing prompt and an optional “twist”; prompts are your topic inspiration for the day, while twists push you to experiment with writing techniques and tools.
You can mix assignments however you like: Respond to the prompt, and ignore the twist. Try the twist, but write on your own topic. Use both the prompt and the twist. Publish what you write on your blog, or use it as private writing practice. It’s up to you! The only mandate is that you write every weekday.
The nitty-gritty:
- You’ll receive a new writing prompt via email each day at 12AM UTC. (Not sure what time that is for you? Use this converter to figure out your local time.)
- There are no weekend assignments — you’re free to expand on a weekday post, write something unrelated, or (gasp!) spend some time away from your blog.
- As in all Blogging U. courses, participants will have a private community site, the Commons, for chatting, connecting, and seeking feedback and support. Daily Post staff and Happiness Engineers will be on hand in the comments to answer your questions and offer guidance and resources.
Ready to register?
We’re excited you’re joining us! Fill out this short form to get started:
Note: you won’t receive an automated confirmation, but you’ll get a welcome email with full details just prior to the start of the course.
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Oh my, I’m looking forward to participating in this. It’s about time I started flexing my writing muscles.
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I’m very excited for this course.
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I’ve enjoyed Photo101 so much I’ve just registered. I hope you will all be kind to me as I’m just a newbie to this blogging caper.
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Registered! After my awesome experience with the Poetry Course, (under a different blog !!) so very looking forward to this ! Fingers crossed!
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Just signed up. It’s my first time doing writing 101 but I am excited!
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Signed up, can’t wait to give it a go.
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I am GREEN, GREEN, GREEN! Just starting my blog, having published anything yet – so excited to see this opportunity.
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Sounds like my old English essay class. Sounds like fun to me.
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When do we get our first assignment ?
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The course starts on Monday, April 6. Depending on where you are in the world, you’ll get the first sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning. You’ll also get a welcome over the weekend with more detail.
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Got it. Thank you!
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Signed up! Can’t wait 🙂
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I’m gonna do it for the first time. Wish me luck! 🙂
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Good luck 🙂
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I just started a new blog a few days ago. This Writing 101 timing couldn’t be more perfect. Can’t wait to start!
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