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May 2, 2015
May 3 – 640 Words
Day 3 – Limits: 640 Words This is the second of our recurring “limits” posts. As the month progresses you’ll come across all sorts of limits: time, word count, point of view, structure. If you get stuck, try rewriting an earlier story in a new way, using these ‘limits’ posts. The Prompt Write a story […]
May 1, 2015
May 2 – Other People’s Memories
Day 2 – Other People’s Memories Every family is full of stories. Some are told (and retold). Some are secret. Some are a surprise that is only revealed years after you ‘should’ have known about them. Your friends have stories they tell and retell. Your colleague and strangers on the bus have stories. Everyone is […]
April 30, 2015
Guest Prompt: Gretchen Rubin
Gretchen Rubin says: Write a short piece inspired by one of William Blake's Proverbs of Hell from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. There are 72, but here are a few of my favorites...
May 1 – Limit Yourself To 40 Minutes
Day 1 – Limits: 40 Minutes Freedom is horrible. If you are free to do anything, write anything, then there is an infinity-minus-one of ways you could do it. That’s a lot of words, ideas and characters you have to reject just to get something on the page. This is the power of limits (‘write […]
April 29, 2015
SWAGr May Check In 2015
This month’s Serious Writer’s Accountability Group is the perfect opportunity for you to list your goals (and personal rules) for this year’s StoryADay May. Don’t be shy. Tell us what you’re going to do this May! Did you make a SWAGr promise last month? Don’t remember what you promised to do? Check out the comments from last month. And don’t forget […]
How Reading Short Stories Made Jacob Tomsky A Better Writer
Are you familiar with the Short Story Thursdays emails? Every week for almost five years, Jacob Tomsky has been researching and sending a short story to an email list of rabid readers. He doesn’t write the stories (he’s a best-selling memoir writer and budding novelist), but he does curate them. Driven by his mood, he […]
April 28, 2015
[Write on Wednesday] Fear Itself
First: The ebook is here! The ebook is here! Get all yer writing prompts ahead of time and start planning your month, today! Only $2.99. Don’t wait, the price goes up to $6.99 on May 1! Now, on to the last Write On Wednesday prompt before StoryADay May 2015! They say you have nothing to […]
Celebrity Guest Prompts Are Coming
Writing prompts can be great: a way into a story without having to stare too long at the blinking cursor; writing exercises that force you to dig deeper; a way to support StoryADay May… …But even better than that, writing prompts can sometimes be a peek inside the head of a successful writer. Last year […]
April 24, 2015
2015 Partipant Badges Are Here
Taking part in StoryADay May 2015? Let everyone know (and hold you accountable) by pasting one of these badges in your blog’s side bar, or using one of the square images as your social media profile photo. Right click to download the files. Save on your computer, then upload to where ever you want to […]
April 22, 2015
[WriteOnWednesday] The Day My (Blank) Quit
Today I want you to think of a character and a relationship that should never be broken. Then break it. The Prompt The Day My _______ Quit Tips You might think of a professional relationship. We don’t normally think of dentists or therapists or trainers or doctors or laywers firing their clients. But it happens. […]
