A 10 day challenge to return to writing as a daily practice


Returning Writing Challenge: 22 June – 1 July 2025

RETURNING is a 10-day writing challenge that helps you return to writing as a daily practice.

Through structure, momentum, support & motivation you’ll identify where & how to carve out time for a little writing each day.

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£30 off for early birds, with this code (valid til Fri 13th, 11.59pm): MY6B4QD

 
 

Do you keep saying you’ll make more time to write? Is there writing you long to do, but other stuff keeps getting in the way? If you’re ready for writing to feel simpler, easier to slot into your day and generally less… heavy… then it’s time to return <3

With RETURNING you get daily emails, co-writing sessions and a supportive WhatsApp group for sharing hopes, small wins, and non-cringe cheerleading. 

I created this challenge because I know how powerful writing momentum in community is. In the past I’ve written 18,000 words in two weeks, just by returning to my writing every day. They weren’t all good words – it was writing itself that mattered. It grew my confidence and helped me to identify what exactly I wanted to write about.

It helped to reveal the shape of what would become my book proposal.

Consistency, community, and reconnecting with everything you love about writing will get you back into a flow that feels fantastic. Slowly but surely, the sentences add up. You’ll feel a refreshed creative purpose as a shape comes into view. Add these 10 days to your diary – it’s time to return to the page! 

Imagine the renewed vigour you'll feel by the end of this writing challenge—back into the flow with your writing, and reconnected with what you need to make regular writing not only achievable – but deeply fulfilling. 

Here’s how RETURNING has helped attendees to start & shake up their writing practices:

 
 

Here’s what you get in RETURNING:

 ✅ 10 days of gently structured writing momentum
 ✅ Daily emails with inspiring prompts, sentence-level strategies, and advice to keep you focused.
 ✅ 3x Returning co-writing sessions on Zoom, for connection while you write.
 ✅ Dedicated Returning WhatsApp group. With voice notes & check-ins from me, plus a supportive space to share blocks, lightbulb moments & progress.
✅ A tailor-made Spotify writing playlist to get you in the zone.
✅ The magic of writing alongside others—you might feel like you’re alone in this, but you’re really not!

Optional online co-working Zoom sessions on (UK time):

Sun 22 June, 10-11.15 am.
Weds 25 June, 12-1 pm.
Sat 28 June, 10-11 am.

You can skip out early if you need to – 15 mins is better than nowt.

 
 

Receive daily emails on these themes:

🏛️ Delicious restriction – how structure can be freeing
🪺 Stealing – in praise of pilfering
🦴 Archeology – how to unearth your narrative bones
🌊 Working with nature’s patterns at a sentence level
🍂 Writing as composting 
⚖️ The conditions of writing – who supports us? 
& more

More RETURNING feedback:

“I feel like I'm at the beginning of something - It feels good to have some word documents and cards on my wall with text on. I've learned that even a little writing for a short amount of time feels useful and like I'm moving things along.”

“I was in a bit of a rut. I've found it fun to play with different places to write - in notebooks, on cards, iPhone notes, word documents. I think I'll remember to not always stick to the same method of writing.”

RETURNING is £79 for 10 days of motivation, support, community, and commitment. The equivalent of a daily coffee & cake while you write (the kind of motivation that personally speaks to me!) 

Join us. Return to your words! Show up with the time you have – even daily 15 minute chunks can get you back into the flow. Write around work or whatever responsibilities you have; the only thing you need to do is commit. By the end of RETURNING, you’ll have made real, tangible progress. More importantly, you’ll have experienced 10 days immersed in work you know you’re made to do.



🔗 Sign up to my mailing list now for more upcoming RETURNING challenge dates. You’ll be the first to hear when slots are open. Let yourself WRITE that thing. Free yourself from putting it off! 



RETURNING is for you, if:

💆‍♀️Deep down you know that writing is what nourishes you – and you want to reconnect with that part of yourself  
👹 You’re ready to tell your internal editor to shut up – and write anyway!
🕵️ You’re curious to discover what you might learn from co-writing sessions & gentle accountability 
🐳 You know you have it in you – your writing just needs to be brought to the surface
🏹 You’re committed to finding a way to write everyday that suits you
💩 You accept that pushing through shame & ‘shit’ writing is part of it – and that’s okay!

£30 off for early birds, with this code (valid til Fri 13th, 11.59pm): MY6B4QD

RETURNING is £79 for 10 days of motivation, support, community, and commitment. The equivalent of a daily coffee & cake while you write (the kind of motivation that speaks to me!)

Join us. Return to your words! Show up with the time you have – whether that’s 15 minutes daily or more. Write around work or whatever responsibilities you have; the only thing you need to do it commit. By the end of RETURNING, you’ll have made real, tangible progress. More importantly, you’ll gave experienced 10 days immersed in work you know you’re made to do.

🔗 Sign up to my mailing list now for upcoming RETURNING challenge dates. You’ll be the first to hear when slots are open. Let yourself WRITE that thing. Free yourself from putting it off!

You might, have these mixed feelings about your writing / project:

  • Desire to return to how you felt when you were previously writing – immersed & familiar your writing world – and with what is to be done

  • Guilt, for having left your project fallow

  • Annoyance with yourself – you’ve been meaning to open your document for months

  • Distractions of everyday life getting in the way / bleeding structure.

  • Fear of continuing – is what I want to say even relevant any more?

  • Shame – “it isn’t even good.”

  • Intimidation - frozen by wondering where the hell to begin with it all?

The good news is that we can always return. Break it down into small steps. First, take a seat. Next, open your laptop or notepad. We only have to write.

What RETURNING will do for you:

  • Renewed energy & confidence of committing yourself

  • Connection & accountability of community - it becomes real when we do it together

  • Daily prompts to get you started

  • Daily WhatsApp voice notes to keep you in the rhythm

  • Power through financial commitment – if you’re like me, sometimes we need to spend money to get the thing done; to symbolise our commitment to ourselves

  • The freedom to write on your terms – around family, work & life commitments

Let’s keep each other on track by RETURNING. It’s time to give that our writing (and let’s be honest, ourselves) some much-needed TLC. 10 days of returning.

It’s £79 to join RETURNING. The equivalent of a coffee and slice of cake each day. Writing in a cafe (with cake and coffee) is an everyday luxury I often give myself in order to write. No carrot-and-stick, just carrot.

£30 off for early birds, with this code (valid til Fri 13th, 11.59pm): MY6B4QD