12 Week Year for Writers

A Proven Method to Unlock Your Productivity and Help You Reach Your Writing Goals

Get the 12 Week Year for Writers Quick Start Guide to start mastering the system that will make your writing easier, more enjoyable, and more productive than ever.

YES, I want to reach my goals

Writing is hard!

Writing is hard. Staying consistent is harder. Being consistent while writing alone...even harder

If you're like most writers, you’ve got plenty of challenges:

Figuring out how plan and get projects started
Grappling with perfectionism
Finding enough time to write
Managing resistance and burnout
Staying focused and managing distractions

If you're like most writers, you've tried all sorts of strategies to finish your writing projects that haven't worked.

Making New Year's resolutions that peter out by March
Making unrealistic plans that wind up overwhelming you
Yelling at yourself and feeling bad when you don't get things done
Trying every new writing app or note taking software

You need to write in order to achieve your most important goals...

That's where the 12 Week Year for Writers comes in. Writing isn’t about willpower, or shiny new software, or productivity hacks. It’s about having a system for planning and execution that helps you make writing easier, more enjoyable, and more rewarding.

The 12 Week Year for Writers Membership provides everything you need to write fearlessly. From training and coaching to community, accountability, and support.

The 12 Week Year for Writers helps you harness your writing potential

It will help you:

Clarify your writing vision so you know what to write, when
Create better plans to help you focus on just the most important things that need doing, preventing overwhelm
Master the use of time so you have a schedule that maximizes your productivity and promotes balance
Develop a weekly writing routine that fits the way you work best

Lower your stress by helping you learn to trust in your weekly routine
Find focus and flow to avoid distraction and make the most of every writing session
Stay accountable to yourself through weekly writing groups and a supportive community of peers
Do your best work because you have a writing system you trust

Want to start writing more productively?

Get our 12 Week Year for Writers Quick Start course to make your writing easier, more enjoyable, and more productive.

YES, I WANT TO WRITE MORE EASILY

WELCOME!

Hi, I'm Trevor Thrall

Over the past 20 years, I’ve used the 12 Week Year as both a professor and an entrepreneur to help me write millions of words on a wide range of topics.

But when I was a new assistant professor, I was staring at a blank white board wondering how I would ever manage to publish enough over the next six years to get tenure.

The truth is that as a young person, I was one of the least efficient and least organized people you’d ever met. It took me a long time to finish my dissertation and before I got my first academic job I had never been a consistent writer or publisher of high-quality work.

Thankfully it was then I discovered the 12 Week Year. Embracing the system transformed my ability to plan and execute my writing. It was so successful that I managed to get tenure while helping raise three kids and juggling a start up business on the side.

My mission now is to help as many others as I can unlock their most productive (and happiest) writing selves.

Writers of all kinds have benefitted from the system

"One of the best investments I ever made was The 12 Week Year for Writers. I went from struggling to get any writing done to a productive writing schedule even with my two jobs. I was able to finish a rewrite of a novel as well as having a 90-day prayer guide published in the same year.."

- Linda Lyle

"I purchased the 12 Week Year for Writers and found it invaluable. Trevor’s unique insights coupled with his capacity to present clear and precise direction make it easy to use the system. What I’ve learned with be lifelong writing habits. Highly recommended!"

-O. Crounk

"I read the 12 Week Year for Writers - the information has been fantastic. For the first time, I have a sustainable writing habit. I'm confident this plan will carry me through the years."

- Deana Hoover

Your path to growth

The 12 Week Year for Writers Membership

Learning. Accountability. Support. Tools.

Invest in yourself and achieve your goals. The 12 Week Year for Writers Membership has everything you need to master the system and get your writing done.

Access to the 12WY for Writers Master Class
Coach-led Weekly Writing Groups
Weekly office hours
Monthly workshops
Community of writers on the journey
Access to WriterOS Notion template
Growing library of planning templates, guides, and other resources
Discounts on challenges and multi-week courses

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The 12 Week Year for Writers

The 12 Week Year for Writers is a transformative roadmap to accelerating your writing output with a series of proven strategies that writers in any genre can implement.

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Monthly Workshops

Every month we bring you 90 minutes of practical and actionable coaching on topics from grappling with AI, managing research, finding focus and flow, and more.

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The Weekly Writing Routine

Building on The 12WY for Writers, this book will help keep "Routine You" in charge of "In the Moment You" and create a customized writing routine that puts you in control of your writing.