The Writers' HQ FIVE DAYS OF FLASH CHALLENGE

SHORT STORIES FOR THE SHORTEST MONTH

Starts Monday 7 February 2022

This flash-flinging five-day writing challenge will give you the inspiration, prompts and tools to write five fantastic pieces of short fiction and hone your flashy skills.

PUT ON YOUR SHORT SHORTS, FOLKS, IT'S TIME TO GET FLASHY

FIVE DAYS OF flash. five new stories under your belt.

February may be the shortest month but sometimes the best things come in tiny packages. 

Flash fiction is an art unto itself – and we wanna show you how to write it.

Join us for a whistlestop five-day writing challenge in which we teach you the fundamental secrets of flash fiction, help you to forge your very own flashy voice, and shower you with irresistible writing prompts to let you write your pants off.

You’ll walk away with five brand new story drafts, a whole heap of techniques and approaches to flash fiction, and the confidence to build your short story skills to craft perfect little literary masterpieces.

 
Join The Writers' HQ Five Days of Flash Challenge - Starting Monday 7 February 2022
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A TASTY PACKAGE OF WRITERLY EXCELLENCE

  • It's FREE!
  • Daily pepping emails to explode you into action
  • A five day flash fiction course on our writey-learny-doing-things platform
  • Access to our super supportive global writing community
  • A serious kick up the writerly beehive
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what am i signing up for?

The Writers’ HQ Five Days of Flash Challenge is a FREE five-day prompt-filled, inspirational online course to help kickstart your flash fiction into the stratosphere. Learn new techniques, hone your short story chops, and get feedback and support from Team WHQ.

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why am i signing up?

Because you wanna discover how to write snappy, impactful flash fiction that makes people say, “Holy em-dashes, I wish I’d written that!” And you deserve to give your writing some dedicated time and attention to make that happen.

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who am i signing up for?

Writers’ HQ helps writers to tell their stories, and to tell them really freakin’ well. We run online creative writing courses and real life retreats for badass writers with no time or money.

Join the wordy revolution.

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IS IT REALLY FREE?

Yes it’s free. FREEEE! But we’re obvi going to try to get you to join as a member at some point because we can’t get enough of helping writers do that writing thang. But you can ignore that stuff. We don’t care. We don’t. It’s fine.

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GDPR AND PRIVACY THINGS

We’ll email you during the course and you’ll also get our writerly newsletter full of awesome writerly things. Your info is private and we’ll delete it any time you want. Here’s the privacy policy that you’ll never read.

 
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DON'T LIKE SWEARS OR MEMES?

Yeah no we’re probably not for you then. We don’t believe that linguistic purity or literary snobbery have any place in the writing world. If you’re not a match for us, thanks for giving us a go and good luck with your writing – we wish you every success.

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It's a bold statement but I'm pretty sure that without taking this course I would never have got past four chapters of my novel. The tools which I gained allowed me to not only structure my novel in a way that makes sense but to give myself the boundaries within which to really move forward with the book. I've written more in the last four months than I've written in two years and I'm coming to the end of my first draft now which is something I never thought I'd actually say. I've been able to set realistic goals, be disciplined and really see my novel take shape. I would recommend this course to everyone and I couldn't be more grateful for it!
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I have always written without a plan but Plotstormers helped me realise I could save myself a lot of work and rewriting if I structure an outline and work from there. The course was fun, easy to follow and made the process very clear and straightforward.
Claire WadePlotstormers
This was the best plotting course around. Thought I was a plotter before I did this but now I know differently. I'm exhausted - but I have a very good plan for my novel!
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I've finally got an outline I feel really confident of - I'm absolutely thrilled! Thank you so much!
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Thank you so much! Your sweary motivation helped me get through plotting - something which I've tried but never finished. There were points I thought that there was no way to make my outline seem interesting, but with the encouragement to keep tweaking, I've ended up with something I'm excited to write. :)
Khazna ChamiPlotstormers
This is an amazing course that I have revisited over and over again with the aim of transforming a hitherto unused portion of my brain into a dedicated 'plotstormarius' - making WHQ's take on story structure an integral part of me. Alternatively, I can just come back here and do it again. To anyone pantsing themselves into a panic, this is your 'panswer' (see what I did there?). Highly recommended.
Katie FewingsPlotstormers
I had an idea. I wrote it out for 60k words. Someone said it was more like a short story. I was stuck. Then I discovered Writers' HQ... I've found my people. This course has literally transformed my work. I now have something that actually reads like the outline for a novel. The teaching methods, materials and support (both from Sarah and Jo, and my fellow plot-a-trons) has been superb. Sensible, practical, intense, with a good splosh of anarchy. I now feel more confident about the actual writing and am also happy that the original idea holds up. Thank you so much and I'm looking forward to the next course (9 month...). It'll be AWESOME!
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  • A five-day flash fiction writing challenge
  • Prompts, exercises and flashy inspiration
  • Access to our super supportive community
  • A serious kick up the writerly beehive
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