Writing Time Growth Weeks: a 1–3 week gentle challenge to help you write more regularly and more easily, with live support and a prize draw. Open to join any time up till 4:30pm on Tues 21 July.

• Free for Writers’ Greenhouse Community members
• Non-members can join from £12

Protect your writing time like an angel with a flaming sword – and step into your personal Garden of Eden.

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This is ideal if:

• You don’t have regular writing time.
• You set writing time but struggle to protect and use it.
• You feel guilty about not writing enough.
• You want to write more but just… don’t.

Regular writing time is absolutely transformative for your writing and becomes your own peaceful sacred Garden of Eden. But it does need an angel with a flaming sword to protect it! With my help, you’ll identify and clear away some obstacles to writing time, set your time for the week(s), and get ideas for how to protect and use that time, like an angel with a flaming sword. PLUS everyone who completes a week will be entered into a prize draw, for an hour’s free one-to-one mentoring. The more weeks you do, the more prize-draw entries you get.

What’s the challenge?

• If you don’t have writing time: To spend 3 hours writing in a week. All at once or across the days, however works for you. With some insightful (perhaps startling) advice on what counts as writing!
• If you already have 3+ hours writing time: To protect and use your full quota of writing time in a week.

How does it work?

You’ll have 3 optional live Zoom sessions to support you, plus an online module to help you set, protect, and use your time. You can still do the Growth Week(s) if you can’t make the live Zoom sessions.

You can do one, two, or three weeks, whatever works for your schedule, and at any time up to 5:30pm on Tues 21 July. (The dates straddle several UK holiday/term times, to accommodate as many people as possible.)

• Optional: Intro Zoom Session: Tues 7 July, 6:00–6:30pm UK time. Explore what counts as writing time, clear away some obstacles, and set your writing time for Growth Week 1 and/or 2.
• Growth Week 1: Wed 8 July – Tues 14 July. Join by 4:30pm Tues 7 July to do this week.
• Growth Week 2: Wed 15 July – Tues 21 July. Join by 4:30pm Tues 14 July to do this week.
• Optional: Intro / Check-in Zoom Session: Tues 21 July, 6:00–6:30pm UK time. A fresh introduction for new people starting plus a check-in and reflection for people continuing or finishing.
• Growth Week 3: Wed 22 July – Tues 28 July. Join by 4:30pm Tues 21 July to do this week.
• Optional: Reflection & Prize Draw Zoom Session: Tues 28 July, 6:00–6:30pm UK time. Reflect on what you’ve discovered, plan how you want to continue, and find out live who wins the prize draw for free mentoring.

What will I be writing?

• If you have a current story or poetry project, write that.
• If you don't have a current writing project, I'll suggest a range of options for both fiction and poems so you can pick what suits you.

How do I join?

If you’re already a member of the Writers’ Greenhouse Community, it’s free for you: you can click the link in the invitation I sent you OR fill in your email below.

If you’re not a member of the Writers’ Greenhouse Community:

• You can join the Writers’ Greenhouse Community for £12 a month, just for one month or for as long as you want.
• You can sign up to the Writing Time Growth Weeks only for £30.

If you join the Writers’ Greenhouse Community, you’ll also get:

• A live monthly Writing Boost session: guided reflection and a Q&A. (The next ones are Mon 6 July 2026 and Tues 4 Aug 2026.)
• A Writing Skill every week
• Access to the Community Group, Trellising Practice, and Sending Writing Out info