@Ryan Clark shared this challenge by Freewrite. Thank you! Click here to register. Get the free online typewriter, Sprinter Note: this is NOT my challenge, just a willing participant. I've created a TRACKER for our community. Hopefully you can open it and start documenting your journey. Whether you write one sentence or 1,613 words a day, I want to celebrate you. Let's keep each other accountable and use this post to cheer each other on. Who is ready to join Ryan, @Elizabeth O'Carroll, and me? I'm tagging you, because you might be ready to write your book, or know people ... and may be willing to share this challenge in your community. Vicki Dunn Nooraya Wales Heather Rovet Jennifer Fitzpatrick @Zoia N Arlana Tanner Fiona Emley Michael Teferi @James Bansbach @Justin Yip @Lisa Black @Zor Zen Den @Rena Nicole @Krista Brea @Ben Sherry Rayna Scott Eileen MacDonell @Ankhara Akeru Dinka Salvador Des Cooke Liz Lemarchand Fatima Teixeira Katinka van Kan Shannon Zagst Bear Gonzales Jessica Rose Stacey Watts Nancy Solook Wendy Lee-Chu Faith Hogan Vinayak Ramesh Patricia Wagner Priscilla Tives

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Anyone else signed up? The goal is simple: 50,000 words in 31 days. (That's ~1,613 words a day.) You'll be able to watch your word count climb alongside other writers in the Freewrite community. They’re also hosting live sprints, handing out prizes and sharing advice from prolific authors. It's genuinely a great time. You can find all the details and register (for free) at 50KMay.com. Whether you're working on a novel, a memoir, a collection of essays, a screenplay, or something you don't even have a name for yet ... May is your month. 50K is just a number. What matters is that you'll finish May with more pages than you started with. If you don't have a Freewrite device, you'll be writing in the free in-browser app, Sprinter, for this challenge.

Something powerful happens when you decide to begin before you feel fully ready. Clarity appears through writing, confidence grows through courageous action, and momentum begins to build as you stay with it. That is the spirit of Write From Source. Over three days, I’ll guide you through a live writing experience designed to help you reconnect with your voice, create real progress, and remember how natural writing can feel inside the right container. We have three morning sessions for North American members and three evening sessions for international members, so more of our community can join live. If you joined a writing experience right now, what would you most want to receive? Vote in the poll below. You can register now inside The Language Portal Classroom. Need more details? Visit my website

Progress is often quieter than people imagine. It can look like showing up, opening your notebook, and staying long enough for truth to arrive. Are you ready to shift your timeline?