Announcing the first Writing Camp of 2025!
Let’s get prepared!
Gooooooooood morning, afternoon, or evening, wherever you happen to be—and welcome to 2025!
I have two announcements:
ANNOUNCEMENT #1: To celebrate my birthday month, I’m running another 2-for-1 deal: 2 people can enjoy 1 year of a paid Page by Page subscription for the price of 1 subscription!
If you’re a free subscriber who’d like access to everything in the PBP archive (plus all paid subscriber posts) for a year, or if you’re someone who’s been waiting for an even more affordable way to support my work, this is your chance!
To take advantage of this deal:
Find a buddy who’ll reimburse you for half the normal subscription cost for 1 year.
Sign up for a paid annual subscription.
Send me your buddy’s email (to mary [[at]] marycflannnery.com) so you both get a paid annual subscription at 50% off for 1 year!
If you’re already a paid subscriber and want to take advantage of this deal and share the PBP magic with a friend: no problem. Just follow Steps 1 and 3 above!
ANNOUNCEMENT #2: The first PBP Writing Camp of 2025 is coming your way! Starting on 20 January 2025, you’ll receive 5 days of prompts, guidance, and encouragement to help you get your writing year off to a great start.
To sign up for the PBP Writing Camp, make sure you’re a Page by Page subscriber, and then follow the instructions in bold/italics in this old Writing Camp post. If you don’t sign up for the ‘Writing Camp’ section, you should still be able to access the posts on the PBP site, but they won’t get sent directly to your inbox.
How you can prepare for Writing Camp
The main goal of this latest Writing Camp is to launch a new writing project (or a new stage of a writing project) in a way that helps you establish the plan and momentum you’ll need to see it through to the end. So if you’ve been putting off starting a writing project, or if the next stage of your current writing project is particularly daunting, this Writing Camp is for you!
To get a writing project off to a good start, you need:
To get organized. The simple act of creating a digital space for your documents and work-in-progress, clearing your writing space, or gathering your hard-copy resources can help you clear that first psychological hurdle keeping you from getting started in the first place.
To have a plan for the beginning. You’ll be aiming to do some form of writing each day for 5 days in a row. When can you fit that in? When are you at your best as a writer? When does writing feel best to you? And what writing tasks will set you up for success once Writing Camp is over? Reflecting on these questions will help put you in a position to get the most out of this week.
To have a (flexible) plan for how you’ll keep going. One of the things we’ll want to have by the end of Writing Camp is an adaptable plan for how you’ll continue with your writing project once Writing Camp is over. Sometimes, life just happens! And when it does, the important thing is not to panic or give up. So you’ll need to set clear goals and build in wiggle room so you can come back to your writing practice even if it gets interrupted.
I’m based in Switzerland, so will send out each prompt at 6am Swiss Time (i.e. CET). I’m someone who writes best when I write early, preferably without having even put on makeup or changed out of my pajamas. But you do you!
I’ll send out another reminder about Writing Camp in next week’s post. I hope to see you there!
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That's the first week of my teaching semester but I'm still going to try and do it!
I'm excited for writing camp! I may have to adapt the prompts as I think I'll focus on lecture writing that week, but I'm sure it will be really useful!