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.
Flash Face Off is just the beginning!
How does Flash Face Off work?
- 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
Nice things people said
WHQ is quite simply writer heaven. An inexhaustible source of knowledge, good advice and stimulation. The perfect place to share passions and feed off of the positive energy of a truly wonderful bunch of human writerbeings.
Terry H
I love this weekly challenge! It always help me magic up stories. It’s super accessible, and you get great feedback, and the chance to read wonderful flashes from others. For me, its spawned novellas, and started publications.
Flash Face Off is a truly remarkable thing! It changed my life and made me believe I was a writer. It has led me to submit my work and have it published, but best of all it has given me the experience of the support, encouragement and downright hilarity of sharing stories with the best group of writers.
Karen
I bloody love flash. Inspiring, supportive, wonderful, wonderful people. Joy. Big fat dollops of joy. I’m writing. I’m writing. I’m writing. And I love it.
Heather H
Flash Face Off is the internet’s best kept secret – a wonderfully supportive, nurturing creative community, which forms an intensive feedback loop of inspiration and learning. It’s where I met most of my best writing buddies. That forum will turbocharge your creativity. And, unbelievably, it doesn’t cost a penny!
Mat G
Flash Face Off saved my voice. I signed up to a creative writing masters but when it ended, I needed someone to remind me to keep writing. Through all the chaos of around me, responding to something in my life week by week and weaving it around the FFO themes is a joy. Thank you for keeping my ‘writer’s voice’ alive!
Caroline G
Flash Face Off!
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
Well that's simply the best pitch I've ever seen! Give me the goodies...
Ready? It's time to stop fucking about and start writing.
Drink tea, eat biscuits, write stories, be happy
Put your name and email address in the thing and we’ll send you everything you need to get flashing with Flash Face Off.
