No Podcasts, No Artist's Way

July 16, 2019 6:05 PM

This post on the Blue reminded me that I am looking for a program similar to Tim Clare's Couch to 80k Bootcamp, but it can't be in podcast format. Can you help me find a similar source of writing prompts or a similar program?

I like Tim Clare. I would like him to move in next door to me so we could chat regularly. But trying to do his program via podcast makes me want to scream into a pillow, for reasons that are unimportant. Is there a similar program in a book or on a website that provides daily writing prompts? It would need to be something geared toward people who do not already have an existing manuscript or book idea.

Note: not looking for an Artist's-Way-style program or a different podcast. I've already done Artist's Way and have access to the books. Podcasts are not working for me as a teaching format.

posted by corey flood to Writing & Language (2 answers total)

I have been trying Tim Clare lately and it's driving me bananas. He dissembles too much for my flagging attention. 10 minutes of silence for the writing period is incompatible with doing the work in a public space - I hear everyone else and can't concentrate, and then his voice's sudden return is startling. But I like the exercises! Did you see that he has a version that gets emailed to you? I'm going to try that next.
posted by xo at 6:15 AM on July 17, 2019 [1 favorite]

You might like Writing Down the Bones and/or Wild Mind by Natalie Goldberg. It's a while since I looked into them (and they are pretty old, and have an 80s New Agey feel to them but it never bothered me even though I'm a very anti-woo kind of person) but they definitely have writing prompts and sort of "challenges" in them.
posted by mskyle at 10:15 AM on July 19, 2019 [2 favorites]