May Writing Challenge Starts Now!
Join the community for this month's writing challenge
It’s May 1st, and the first day of the Residuals May Writing Challenge.
Our goal this month is to spend a little bit of time writing every day. Weekdays, weekends, holidays, no excuses. And if you can’t do every day, try for as many days as possible.
What’s happens if you miss a day? Start up again the next day. This isn’t about all or nothing, it’s about getting a community push to work on something you care about that you’ve been putting off.
So start off strong. Carve out 30 minutes right now. Or an hour at lunch. Or 15 minutes between meetings.
Jump into your script or outline or development brainstorm doc, and write your project. No one else will do it for you.
We’ll check in on the discord server (the Writing Challenges thread), and I’ll send out weekly check-ins on Mondays here on the Substack to help everyone start the week off strong.
And to make it fun and easy, here’s a writing tracker I’ve built just for us:
Track your progress every day and you’ll see an average page count, total minutes, total pages, and you can build up your writing streak to screenshot and share with a community of other writers taking the challenge on the Residuals discord.
Let’s get started.
P.S. Should we have winners? I mean it would be really easy to fake the numbers, so I guess don’t do that if we want to crown anyone Daily Average Champion or Total Page Victor. Let me know in a comments what you think.
Chris Amick is a Film and TV Writer/Producer in Los Angeles with credits including Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, Die Hart 2, Kung Fu Panda: the Dragon Knight, Final Space, and more. His latest project is as Executive Producer on the existential thriller IT ENDS, which premiered at SXSW 2025. He teaches writing classes here.