Writing Competitions for Motivation

For any inspiring writes, a great place to start is short story competitions.

They can be a great source of motivation as they

• Have a deadline to work too
• A not too scary word count
• Sometimes they even have a topic to give you direction
• Often you can read previous entries to give you a good gauge of what the judges will be looking for

Here’s a great list of competitions to start with: https://thewritersacademy.co.uk/blog/writing-competitions/

Create yourself a calendar with closing dates on – I suggest Google Calendar as it’s free. Looks at perhaps colour coding it, so you can allocate time in the diary to write it, and they easily see the deadlines.

The best way to approach competitions is to think of them as practice. You might not win them all, but your writing will absolutely improve with all that practice.