Below you will find all the tasks of the writing pathway, divided by level of difficulty.
Note: The mentioned wordcounts are only for your convenience. Write whatever number of words you need to complete the story. However, obviously, if you're going for a novella but your story ends up as only 6000 words, that's more of a short story, so you should give yourself the amount of XP you'd get for a short story, not a novella.
Very easy – 1 XP:
- Write a one-sentence story idea
- Write a title
- Describe a (new) character in one sentence
- Write a goal for any character
- Come up with a new world and write down the single biggest difference between that world and ours
- Re-write a paragraph without changing its meaning
Easy – 2 XP:
- Write a diary entry of your day
- Write a prompt
- Write a logline for your own story or a story you know well
- Describe feeling angry
- Describe feeling sad
- Describe feeling in love
- Describe feeling happy
- Describe feeling scared
- Describe the room you currently find yourself in
- Write a joke
- Write a blurb (for your own story or any story you know well enough)
- Create a blog
- Write a scene consisting only of dialogue, without dialogue tags. There should be a clear distinction between the voices of the characters, so that it's always clear who's talking.
- Include all five senses (hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell) in a scene that you're writing
Medium – 5 XP:
- Write a summary of a new plot (500-1000 words)
- Write a summary of a new character (500-1000 words)
- Write a summary of a new world (500-1000 words)
- Write an outline for a new story (about 2000 words)
- Write a very scary scene
- Write a very funny scene
- Write a very sad scene
- Write out an "interview" with one of your main characters, in which they tell you about their life before the story started
- Write a flash fiction (about 1000 words)
- Write a drabble (exactly 100 words)
- Write a short story (about 5000 words)
- Write a short story OR chapter in your Work-In-Progress focussing specifically on an aspect you struggle with (for example: descriptions, dialogue, world building, etc.)
- Rewrite a fairytale in the form of a short story (about 5000 words)
- Enter into a short story competition
- Edit your short story
- Find a random prompt in our Prompts chapter and write a short story for it
- Write a blog post or article on any creative writing topic
- Write a blog post or article on any other topic
- Write a short story based on the last song you've listened to
- Write a poem
Hard – 10 XP:
- Write a novella (about 30.000 words)
- Enter into the open novella contest (and participate until the end; finish that novella)
- Edit your novella
- Find a random prompt in our Prompts chapter and write a novella for it
- Write a film script or TV show script
Legendary – 50 XP:
- Write a full-length novel
- Find a random prompt in our Prompts chapter and write a novel for it
- Edit your novel
Note: We are open to adding new tasks. Let us know if you come up with any and we might just add them to the list.
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