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April 12, 2016
[Write On Wednesday] Steal A Title
Big News! This prompts for this year’s StoryADay May challenge are now available for pre-order as a Kindle ebook! (More formats forthcoming)
If you’re the type of person who likes to plan ahead, go ahead and pre-order your copy …
March 31, 2016
Serious Writers’ Accountability Group Check-In April 2016
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Breaking News
The StoryADay Warm Up Bootcamp is back, live!
Audio and PDF lessons to help you jumpstart your story writing
*New* A super-secret Facebook group, for easy community-building
Free access for anyone who’s taken the course before or bought
March 30, 2016
[Write On Wednesday] 100 Word Story With Grandparents
Today I’m challenging you to share your story on the new Anchor App (only available for iOS just now, sorry).
The Prompt
Write A 100 Word Story Containing A Reference To Grandparents
Tips
This can be a story about grandparents, …
March 22, 2016
[Write On Wednesday] Change A Headline
Did you ever, as a child, say a word so often that it lost its meaning? (“Basin”, anyone?)
Today I want you to stare at a news headline until it loses its original meaning and lets you play with it.…
March 15, 2016
[Write on Wednesday] Write what you know
We’re always being told to write what we know but doesn’t that sound the teensiest bit boring?
Still, unless you have a lot of time for research, mining your own experiences can be useful…if you go about it in the …
March 11, 2016
Stop Sabotaging Your Writing Dreams – March 2016 Newsletter
StoryADay News March 2016
In This Issue
News & Notes – The Warm Up Course Is Back + Podcast Intern
Featured Articles – Permission To Write
Coming This Month – Productivity
Inspiration – Reading Room and Writing Prompts
SWAGr – …
March 9, 2016
Happy 6th Birthday, StoryADay May!
Six years ago today, I posted this at StoryADay.org
(Of course, the site didn’t look like that, back then. And look, I haven’t even set up any categories for the posts yet. Bless.)
That first year about 100 writers joined …
March 8, 2016
[Write On Wednesday] PostModern Pop Songs
After you reach a certain age — or stage — of life, it seems like no one writers songs for you any more. You’ve learned a lot of the lessons pop singers seem to be struggling with. Maybe you’re (gasp!) …
March 7, 2016
[Reading Room] The Rules Are The Rules by Adam Foulds
I liked the fact that this story was about a man who happened to be a vicar and who happened to be gay, rather than being About A Gay Vicar. It makes me feel like we’ve evolved as a species, …
February 29, 2016
Serious Writers’ Accountability Group Check-In – March 2016
Every month we gather here to discuss what we’ve achieved and commit to making more progress in our creative lives in the coming month. We call it our Serious Writer’s Accountability Group or SWAGr, for …
