Final Deadline will help you write that novel, paper or thesis.

Whether or not you've ever finished (or even started) a book before, Final Deadline will help you accomplish things you never dreamed you could do.

You have stories in your head that no one else can see.
Today is the day to write them down.

Start Writing

Plan your Novel

Make sure your novel has a good solid foundation of plot, characters and setting. Plan details even if they won't feature in the book, and the result will feel fluent and cohesive.

Call forth from your imagination...

Guided writing exercises get you well and truly into the mind of your characters.

By answering rapid-fire questions, the details of your setting will spring into life.

Use our apps as a thinking aid when you hit a wall. Or load one up as a quick break from writing.

Write your Novel

Writing requires persistence and determination. Don't focus on the end result and obsess over how far away it looks. Make the act of writing a habit, and win the race steadily.

Write a little every day.

Track and plan your writing with the interactive daily tracker.

Let Final Deadline worry about scheduling, wordcount goals and finish dates.

Work with any writing software or even pen and paper.

The only thing you need to do is sit down and write.

Refine your Novel

Your writing isn't finished before you've put it before friends and editors to get their feedback. Never skip this stage. Everyone will know.

Release excerpts of your work in progress for editing while you carry on writing the rest.

Post a single link to Facebook, Twitter, etc. or email it directly to your friends and editors.

Your editors can work from anywhere without managing files or printing out reams of paper.

Final Deadline

Write yourself a story

Final Deadline makes tools, apps, exercises and services to assist with every aspect of writing. Our single goal is to get all the stories in your head down on to paper.

About Us

Final Deadline was started by a couple of students during their last year at university. It was created when they became enthused with writing after joining the local students' Creative Writing Society.

The intention of the company is to promote writing, help contribute towards a healthy crop of good books to read, and to recreate the atmosphere of a quaint student club even after all its members have moved on to new lives outside of the university.

We also want to have fun! We love the idea of creating new tools to tackle writer's problems in a more imaginative way. We think technology has limitless potential to better our lives in countless ways - and it's our job to find out what those are.

We're coming up with new ideas all the time - good ones and bad ones, we'll try them all - and we're always keen to hear other people's input. If you have any cool new concepts, suggestions or comments about the site, we want to hear all about them!

Rationale Behind the Name

The vast majority of good ideas out there are going to die quietly, simply because people like you and me have other things to do with our time. We may lack confidence, we may lack willpower, but fundamentally we lack the time.

Giving yourself a deadline, declaring your project to be something important enough to spend time on, is the only way to change that.

Every great author did it, either consciously or un-. We have to as well. It will be worth it when we do.

For anyone who finds it easier to reach for an excuse than pick up a pen:

• If you want to write, but never have the time.
• If you're trying to build up a writing habit but you keep forgetting, or real life keeps leading you astray
• If you know you have a great book inside you, but you're afraid you lack the confidence or stamina to see it through

The Sharp Edge will make you write. At knifepoint.

If that's not for you, turn back.

Why?

Think back to the last significant piece of writing you completed.

Was it a report for work, or an essay for school? In which case, you damn well got it done: because if you didn't, you knew there would be consequences.

It's always our own, personal projects that slip, because it never really matters if they get put off until tomorrow.

If not finishing your novel was as scary a prospect as not showing up for work, you'd see to it that thing got finished.

The Sharp Edge is designed to bridge that gap. We will make that project matter to your immediate future, as it never has before.

The Rules

How much does your novel mean to you?

You set yourself a deadline (or interim milestone), then you put a big chunk of your own money up at risk. You want that money back, you have to start writing.

If you complete your target as intended, nothing happens and we don't charge you at all. If not, your card is debited by the amount you risked.

It's that simple.

The Results

What could you do if you had to?

The Sharp Edge is the most effective tool in our toolkit.

It may seem rather scary. It's supposed to be - it has to be. Because that is how it works: Your novel has to matter to you more than the everyday life that's currently blotting it out.

There needs to be a hard edge - something to overcome the fatigue, apathy and lethargy that unavoidably sets in halfway through any worthwhile project.

Once your novel is as large a priority as your job or your school, once there are real-world consequences, you can be damn sure you'll get it done. Never seem to find the time? You'll make the time. Writer's block? You'll think of something. You'll have to.

This is the Final Deadline shop, where we assemble things you might find useful.

The products here aren't from Final Deadline, but gathered from around the web. Your buying them still helps support our site via affiliate marketing.

If you don't see your needs reflected in the shop, but you do see something elsewhere, contact us and let us know! Lots of different people use Final Deadline and we want to look after all of you.

Buy stuff here to help support the site. This is affiliate marketing, we get a small percentage of any products bought through this page - that money allows us to keep Final Deadline going. So buy here and get your friends to do the same.

We want this to be a focussed shop, a place for the best products specifically useful for writers. The obvious thing then is to ask our users for their say.

The Shop exists to make money that helps support the site and keep it available for free users. But we want to make it more than that - we see an opportunity to build a tight, focussed resource of the best products specifically useful for writers. So the obvious thing to do is ask our users for their say. If you can recommend any product or service that you found genuinely useful, and you think others might benefit from, please let us know. The vendor must offer us an affiliate program with a sensible commission.

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