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Writing · 100 days · Hundred

  1. What the hundred days look like
  2. A question before you start
  3. Join the next hundred days

Accountability · online, daily, written

You have been in writing groups. They met monthly and read work aloud.

A critique group tells you whether the chapter works. It does not make the chapter exist. What is missing between meetings is a daily place to say what you did, and somebody on the other side who notices when you stop saying it.

A month is a long time to hide in

why groups stop working

Monthly meetings give you a month of coverYou can miss four weeks of writing and still arrive with something to read. The group never sees the gap at all.
A writing partner has their own bad monthsTwo-person accountability fails together: they go quiet, you go quiet, and neither of you is to blame.
Feedback answers a question you were not stuck onLine notes on a chapter written three months ago do very little for the chapter that has not been started.

What a hundred days tends to look like

Getting used to being seen every day. Most of the discomfort of this arrives here and then fades.

Three tasks in the morning, one report at night

how it runs

01 Three tasks each morning Your own, set for the day you can actually see in front of you.
02 A report every night, not every month Daily is the entire difference. There is nowhere for a lost fortnight to sit unnoticed.
03 A group doing exactly the same All on one hundred days, all reporting. You read theirs, they read yours, and that is the mechanism.

the shape of it

What a hundred days tends to look like

entry 1

Getting used to being seen every day. Most of the discomfort of this arrives here and then fades.

Day 1–10

Getting used to being seen every day. Most of the discomfort of this arrives here and then fades.

Day 40

The group has settled into names and patterns, and silence from any one of you is noticeable.

Day 100

A hundred days of mutual reporting, finishing on the same date everybody started counting towards.

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The desk, the page, the hour

Accountability is what writers keep buying

where this comes from

140,479

Shut Up & Write! lists this many members across 119 meetups, free since 2007 — proof that writing next to other people is a format people turn up for.

source

Writers' HQ charges for a membership whose headline features are daily check-ins and weekly write-alongs rather than courses.

source

Numbers are quoted from the pages they link to, not estimated by us.

Three tasks each morning. One report each night. A hundred days of writing.

before you sign up

Reasonable questions

Will anyone critique my writing?

No. The programme deliberately contains no critique.

Is it live or written?

Written. Tasks in the morning, a report at night, read by the group.

Can I bring a writing partner with me?

Yes, although the group does not depend on any one person being present.

What if I miss several reports?

The gap shows. Nobody removes you for it; the visibility is the whole point.

Are there free groups that do this?

Several, and some are linked in the sources above. They run shared sessions, and what they do not ask for is a daily report with your name on it.

A hundred days of being seen daily

Leave an email and we will write when the next group opens. Nothing is charged here.

One email when the next group opens.

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