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5 Writing Challenges To Take For Improving Your Skills

5 min readSep 9, 2024

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One of the best ways to improve your skills and your portfolio is to challenge yourself.

I won’t waste your time with a lengthy intro, let’s get straight into it. Here are 5 writing challenges you can take to improve your skills.

Write A 50k word Story

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This will take the most time but writing a story of this length is a good portfolio. Better still, it’s great practice if you want to write a novel one day.

It’s longer than a Novella but shorter than proper novels. A nice middle ground for a challenge but not enough to burn you out.

Check out my article about what I learned when I wrote my 50k story. One that was complete anyway.

If that’s too much for now, writing for an Audiobook is a bit easier.

Write A Short Audio Story

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Writing an audiobook is a nice addition to your portfolio. Instead of potential clients…

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I’m Blankmarks and I love magic in fiction. I’ll write about the various magic types and concepts not only for fun but to help writers create new magical worlds