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The Best Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals for Writers (2024)

Annie Cosby
November 15, 2024 | 4 min read

Tis the season to save on the tools you need to make 2025 your best writing year yet!

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are almost here, and so are the unbeatable deals that’ll fuel your creative fire.

Whether you’re a novelist, poet, blogger, student, journaler, or copywriter, here's a comprehensive list of the writing goodies offering unbeatable deals this shopping season.

Ready to fill your cart with deals that’ll power your passion? Let’s dive into the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday steals for writers!

Make sure to check back daily. We will continue to update this list as our team confirms deals across the writing world.

Freewrite

Freewrite's biggest sale EVER is now LIVE! To celebrate their 10th anniversary, the Freewrite team is going big. You can now score:

  • 10% OFF Traveler
  • 15% OFF Smart Typewriter
  • 20% OFF Alpha

Plus, all device purchases come with your choice of ONE:

  • FREE Deskmat (or)
  • FREE Felt Sleeve

And, EACH of these gifts:

  • FREE 12-month Freewrite Plus subscription
  • FREE Freewrite anniversary sticker sheet
  • EXCLUSIVE MEGA Scrivener license discount

Use code DECADEDEALS at checkout, and make sure to shop before December 4. Get all the details here. 

Writers.com

Looking for a gift for a writing friend? The pros over at Writers.com are offering 10% off all gifted course credit. (So, if you buy a $500 credit for a friend, you’ll only be charged $450.) Shop and gift this deal through December 31!

Final Draft

Looks like the screenwriting industry standard software is offering its best price of the year. Score 35% off Final Draft 13 for a limited time.

Helping Writers Become Authors

Elevate your storytelling game with 25% off the brilliant K.M. Weiland's arsenal of writing resources at Helping Writers Become Authors (Nov. 18 to Dec. 2).

Weiland's popular books offer expert guidance on plot, character, story structure, and more, while interactive workbooks (including the Outlining Your Novel Workbook software) can turn your knowledge into practical skills.

Dive deep into character development with the Creating Character Arcs course and the Shadow Archetypes course, and don't miss the unique Archetypal Character Guided Meditations for delving into your characters' minds and dreaming up new story ideas!

Grammarly

Many professionals and budding writers alike use edited software like Grammarly to polish their writing. Grammarly is offering 50% off any Pro Plan subscription through Dec. 6.

 

Best Page Forward

Enjoy up to 40% off Best Page Forward's expert-crafted book descriptions, marketing packages, and exclusive author services.

Choose from a range of digital items, courses, coaching, and consulting services to help you optimize your online presence, including help with book descriptions, Amazon and Facebook Ad copy, private and group author coaching, and more.

Alliance of Independent Authors

Take your indie author career to the next level with a discounted Lifetime Access Pass to the Self-Publishing Advice Conference for just £99 (usually £299).

SelfPubCon, the Self-Publishing Advice Conference, runs in association with the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) once a year, featuring top self-publishing authors and advisors.

You’ll get unlimited access to 150+ hours of expert advice from all past Self-Publishing Advice Conferences, including the 2024 Publishing for Profit conference, featuring self-publishing advisors like Jane Friedman, Mark Dawson, Joanna Penn, Anna Featherstone, Karen Inglis, Russell Nohelty, Ricardo Fayet, Orna Ross, and more.

Valid until Dec. 6.

BookFunnel

Whether it’s delivering your reader magnet, sending out advanced copies of your book, handing out ebooks at a conference, or fulfilling your digital sales to readers, BookFunnel does it all.

And they're offering $50 off the first year of Mid-List or Best Seller Author plans.

Vellum

Vellum, a popular software for formatting beautiful and professional-looking ebooks, paperbacks, and hardcovers (a must for indie authors!), keeps their deals on lock. But they've had a Cyber Monday deal for the past three years, so we recommend keeping your eyes peeled! 

 

Ugmonk

Wow those on your gift list with up to 35% off Ugmonk's beautifully minimalistic products through December 5.

Code auto-applied at checkout.

CW&T

CW&T is a design practice that brings awesome things into the world like devices that alter our perception of time, an electronics curriculum for artists, an astrological compass for space travelers, and objects engineered to last multiple generations.

Shop CW&T before Sunday, December 1, for 15% off orders over $100 + a FREE clean rag.

Studio Neat

Our friends over at Studio Neat are offering 30% off orders over $200 placed through Sunday, December 1.

Sign up to their email list to get the code and stock up on gifts for your writing friends!

SlimFold

The makers of the perfect slim wallet are offering 20% off sitewide this weekend! Shop before Monday, December 2 to save with code COLLECTIVE.

Author Clock

The Author Clock is the perfect treat for any writer who's been dying to update their workspace with this special literary clock. You can score $35 off any order of a Vol 1 or Vol 2 Author Clock between November 27 and December 2.

Distil

At Distil Union, you'll find all kinds of gifts for your loved ones — or yourself — with one thing in common: they're all problem-solving products that are a delight to use.

You can score 30% off orders over $65 on their site through Sunday, December 1, with code COLLECTIVE. 

Manual

Here at Freewrite, you know we love to go analogue. That's why we love the beautifully designed goods for slow living from Manual.

And they're offering 25% off some of the gorgeous goods in their online store through December 4.

Cotton Bureau

Shop the internet's oddest t-shirt company (in a good way!) through Sunday, December 1, and get 10% off + free shipping.

Storiarts

The creative team over at Storiarts is celebrating Black Fridays this year — yes, that's plural!

On Nov 22, literary scarves are 50% off!

And from Nov. 29 to Dec. 2, you'll find items across the store up to 50% off + free gifts with your purchase.

Stocking up on gifts for literary friends has never been easier.

Field Notes

"Field notes" are written observations collected by writers, researchers, or anyone else doing fieldwork (like anthropologists, ecologists, and other scientists). So it's no surprise that writers love and collect Field Notes Brand notebooks to grab all their fleeting thoughts in life.

Field Notes is offering 25% off "just about everything" on their site through Monday, December 2.

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It’s Freewrite’s favorite time of year. When dictionaries around the world examine language use of the previous year and select a “Word of the Year.”

Of course, there are many different dictionaries in use in the English language, and they all have different ideas about what word was the most influential or saw the most growth in the previous year. They individually review new slang and culturally relevant vocabulary, examine spikes or dips in usage, and pour over internet trend data.

Let’s see what some of the biggest dictionaries decided for 2025. And read to the end for a chance to submit your own Word of the Year — and win a Freewrite gift card.

[SUBMIT YOUR WORD OF THE YEAR]


Merriam-Webster: "slop"

Merriam-Webster chose "slop" as its Word of the Year for 2025 to describe "all that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters."

The dictionary lists "absurd videos, off-kilter advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks pretty real, junky AI-written books, 'workslop' reports that waste coworkers’ time … and lots of talking cats" as examples of slop.

The original sense of the word "slop" from the 1700s was “soft mud” and eventually evolved to mean "food waste" and "rubbish." 2025 linked the term to AI, and the rest is history.

Honorable mentions: conclave, gerrymander, touch grass, performative, tariff, 67.

Dictionary.com: "67"

The team at Dictionary.com likes to pick a word that serves as “a linguistic time capsule, reflecting social trends and global events that defined the year.”

For 2025, they decided that “word” was actually a number. Or two numbers, to be exact.

If you’re an old, like me, and don’t know many school-age children, you may not have heard “67” in use. (Note that this is not “sixty-seven,” but “six, seven.”)

Dictionary.com claims the origin of “67” is a song called “Doot Doot (6 7)” by Skrilla, quickly made infamous by viral TikTok videos, most notably featuring a child who will for the rest of his life be known as the “6-7 Kid.” But according to my nine-year-old cousin, the origins of something so mystical can’t ever truly be known.

(My third grade expert also demonstrated the accompanying signature hand gesture, where you place both hands palms up and alternately move up and down.)

And if you happen to find yourself in a fourth-grade classroom, watch your mouth, because there’s a good chance this term has been banned for the teacher’s sanity.

Annoyed yet? Don’t be. As Dictionary.com points out, 6-7 is a rather delightful example at how fast language can develop as a new generation joins the conversation.

Dictionary.com honorable mentions: agentic, aura farming, broligarchy, clanker, Gen Z stare, kiss cam, overtourism, tariff, tradwife.

Oxford Dictionary: "rage bait"

With input from more than 30,000 users and expert analysis, Oxford Dictionary chose "rage bait" for their word of the year.

Specifically, the dictionary pointed to 2025’s news cycle, online manipulation tactics, and growing awareness of where we spend our time and attention online.

While closely paralleling its etymological cousin "clickbait," rage bait more specifically denotes content that evokes anger, discord, or polarization.

Oxford's experts report that use of the term has tripled in the last 12 months.

Oxford Dictionary's honorable mentions:aura farming, biohack.

Cambridge Dictionary: "parasocial"

The Cambridge Dictionary examined a sustained trend of increased searches to choose "parasocial" as its Word of the Year.

Believe it or not, this term was coined by sociologists in 1956, combining “social” with the Greek-derived prefix para-, which in this case means “similar to or parallel to, but separate from.”

But interest in and use of the term exploded this year, finally moving from a mainly academic context to the mainstream.

Cambridge Dictionary's honorable mentions: slop, delulu, skibidi, tradwife

Freewrite: TBD

This year, the Freewrite Fam is picking our own Word of the Year.

Click below to submit what you think the Word of 2025 should be, and we'll pick one submission to receive a Freewrite gift card.

[SUBMIT HERE] 

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