Flash Face Off
The fastest, most fun way to develop your writing
Flash Face Off is the free weekly writing challenge for people with a head and heart full of stories.
What you get:
- Weekly writing prompts
- Weekly feedback
- Advice, support and guidance
You’ve got the ideas. The notebooks. The urge to write. What’s missing? A reason to show up and do the damn thing!
Flash Face Off will give you the structure, the deadlines and the motivation you need to get your butt in a chair and the words on a page.
Listen. We’ve all been lied to. Writing isn’t a solitary pursuit. You don’t have to be angst ridden and lonely. It can be about joy and community and ease.
Develop your writing. Meet new friends. Laugh until you pee yourself a bit.
How does Flash Face Off work?
FFO is super simple. Every week we send you new prompts, you write a story, share it on the forum, give and receive feedback, improve your work, and once a month we all get together to celebrate.
- Grab your prompts and write a story
- Get and give feedback
- Join the open mic
- Rinse and repeat
Who is Flash Face Off for?
- You've got stories in your head and you want to get them onto paper but life gets in the way
- Kids, work, executive dysfunction, the state of the world, important doomscrolling - all these things conspire against you, but you know there's a better way
- You hate to admit it but you need structure, deadlines and motivation to help you stop fucking about and start writing
How does Flash Face Off help?
The best way to improve your writing is to give constructive, positive feedback on other people’s work and to receive the same on your own work.
Breaking and remaking stories is the cornerstone of rapid writerly improvement. Also it’s a butt-tonne of fun and our community is lush.
If you want to practice your writing, regardless of where you are in your writerly journey, and want to hang out with the most word-writing, biscuit-dunking, story-slinging, tea-drinking, super supportive writers in town, this is the place for you.
"Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row" - Ray Bradbury
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Ready? It's time to stop fucking about and start writing.
Flash Face Off is a goddamn motherfracking joyful weekly word-based, inspirational, educational, muppetational, butt-kicking to develop your skills get the stories flying out of your fingers, like Spiderman but with stories not webs and also not always a man <marketing jazz hands>
- Prioritise the things that matter to you and make writing part of your weekly routine
- Accept that you are a writer even if you don't feel like you're a writer (even though you probably have a butt-tonne of story ideas and notebooks on the go and maybe even some finished stories in the bank)
- Stop being so fed up with your own dicking about and get on with writing