Kickoff: FREE Gentle 30-Day Writing Challenge (Workbook + Micro Writing Prompts)

Kaecey McCormick
2 days ago
3 min read

Greetings, creatives!

Instead of chasing 50,000 words this November, what if you gave yourself ten minutes a day? Today I’m launching the FREE Gentle 30-Day Micro-Writing Challenge—a month of small, sustainable practices designed to keep your creativity alive without overwhelm.

Here's a little more information to help you decide if this 30-day writing challenge is for you:

Why join a 30-day writing challenge?

A daily writing habit builds momentum, sharpens your craft, and creates space for unexpected ideas.

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The best part? You don’t need hours of free time or a novel-sized ambition to benefit. Just commit to small, steady steps.

By the end of the month, you’ll have:

A sustainable writing rhythm
Fresh material you can expand into poems, stories, or essays
A renewed, joyful connection to your practice

Unlike other challenges, there’s no pressure to “win” or hit a word count. Every effort counts.

How this 30-Day writing challenge works

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FREE! No cost, no sign-ups, no pressure!

There’s no registration or group login. This is entirely self-paced and self-directed. All you need to do is download the workbook and begin.

Just ten minutes a day Each prompt is designed to fit into the cracks of your busy schedule—which I find is especially important during November! A single page, a stanza, or even a few lines is enough to count.

Write in any genre at any time For each prompt, you decide what to create: poetry, flash fiction, memoir, or hybrid prose. The prompts are flexible invitations, not rigid assignments, so you can match them to the form that best fits your mood, time, and curiosity.

Start whenever you want While I designed this challenge with November in mind, you can begin anytime and move at your own pace. The goal is consistency, not the calendar.

Weekly encouragement

I’ll post a short check-in every Sunday to share reflections, encouragement, and sometimes a “bonus” mini-prompt to keep you motivated.

What’s inside the free workbook

The workbook organizes 30 micro-writing prompts into four themed weeks:

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Beginning with Awareness (Week 1) You’ll start by sharpening your senses. Prompts guide you to notice light, sound, smell, and other small details of your environment. These gentle observations are the seeds of bigger work.
Playing with Perspective (Week 2)
For each prompt, you get to choose how to write—poetry, fiction, memoir, even hybrid forms. You might rewrite from someone else’s POV, give voice to an inanimate object, or try a whole new narrator. In other words, you decide which genre or lens best fits each day’s spark.
Mining Memory & Emotion (Week 3)
This week turns inward, inviting you to write letters to your younger self, describe meals from childhood, or capture moments of joy and loss. The prompts are designed to connect memory with sensory detail, so emotions emerge naturally.
Opening to Possibility (Week 4)
The final stretch is about curiosity and play. You’ll invent new holidays, write the first lines of a story you’ll never finish, or capture silence as if it were an object. The goal is to embrace freedom and surprise in your writing.

Each day invites about 10 minutes of writing (a few lines, a paragraph, a stanza). Miss a day? No guilt. Skip, repeat, or rearrange prompts—presence over perfection.

Download the free workbook

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👉 Download the free Gentle 30-Day Micro-Writing Challenge Workbook (PDF)

Print it, keep it on your desktop, or screenshot the week you’re on—whatever keeps you coming back for a few minutes each day. Don't forget to return here once a week for added motivation and encouragement (plus bonus content!).

A gentle way to build a daily writing practice (30-Day Writing Challenge)

This challenge isn’t about word counts. It’s about showing up. I promise ten mindful minutes can change how you see, how you listen, and how you create.

Join me in the Gentle 30-Day Micro-Writing Challenge and discover how micro-writing can transform your practice with momentum, discovery, and joy!