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June 13, 2016
Finish Your Book In Three Drafts — An Interview With Stuart Horwitz
Every word of that title is important, so go back and read it again.
Doesn’t that sound …
June 11, 2016
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June 2, 2016
June News: 7DayStory + StoryFest
I hope your writing is going well.
If you joined us in May, well done, you! I’m sure you’re a little burned out now, but keep reading for some motivation to keep at your craft this month,
In This Issue…
May 31, 2016
SWAGr post for June 2016
OHMYGOODNESS I can’t believe StoryADay May 2016 is over! I’m relieved, I’m distraught, I’m going to miss checking in every day and seeing all the new stories and new friends appear. BUT IT DOESN’T HAVE TO END! Here’s the Serious …
[Write On Wednesday] Happy Birthday!
It’s my long-suffering husband’s birthday today! (Happy birthday, dear!) In honor of that, here’s your prompt:
The Prompt
Write A Story That Features A Birthday
Tips
You can take this in any direction: happy, creepy, silly, romantic, horrific…go wild.
You …
You Did It! Get Your Badges!
Here are your “DID IT!” badges – NEW, for this year’s StoryADay.
You can use these badges anywhere online. You don’t have to have written 31 stories in 31 days — just decide if you achieved/leaned anything of worth during …
May 30, 2016
Go Big (And) Go Home
This is it! You’ve made it!
This is the moment you’ve been waiting for. Today you’re going to take everything you’ve learned this month and write the story you’ve been waiting to write—the story you could not have written before …
May 29, 2016
The Power Of Three
If you wrote every day this month, you’ve written a decade of stories three times already. Three batches of 10 stories. Doesn’t that feel neat?
That’s because it conforms to the Rule of Three. For some reason humans love things …
May 28, 2016
Torture Your Protagonist
One of the biggest problems in fiction is when a writer creates nice characters and then doesn’t want to hurt them. Today, let’s make it hurt!
The prompt
Torture your protagonist
Tips
This may come easily to some of you,
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Welcome to StoryADay, Week Five!
This is it! Can you believe it?
Three more days to go!
I’m calling this partial-week The Last Hurrah.
This week we’re going to:
torture your characters
look at the rule of three
And then on the final day I …
