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• JulieD wrote a new post, 8 Great Sites For Writing Prompts , on the site Story A Day 3 days, 11 hours ago

  It’s the Number 1 question authors are asked in interviews: Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

  Of course, a large part of being a writer is having ideas, harnessing them, molding them. But we all have days when the […]

• JulieD wrote a new post, [Write On Wednesday] Digital Story Cubes, on the site Story A Day 1 week, 1 day ago

  OK, so I’ve used my real-life Story Cubes to generate a prompt once before, but now the cute game has an even cuter app, and who am I to resist?
  So, behold: this week’s story prompt comes from the Rory’s Story […]

• JulieD wrote a new post, [Write On Wednesday] – Stories From The Everyday, on the site Story A Day 2 weeks, 3 days ago

  Sometimes it’s fun to write about big, grand, dramatic themes: war, a break-up, a life-changing event.

  But sometimes the most effective stories come from a meticulously detailed moment in everyday life: someone […]

• JulieD wrote a new post, [Write On Wednesday] Six Sentences, on the site Story A Day 3 weeks, 3 days ago

  This week’s prompt comes with a built-in market to submit your work to after you’re finished: Six Sentences. I subscribe to their daily stories by email and I often find it inspiring to wake up to a micro-story […]

• JulieD wrote a new post, What Every Writer Ought To Know About The Writing Life, on the site Story A Day 1 month ago

  
  I’ve been reading Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale, , which is a rollocking, inspiring come-along-with-me look over the shoulder of the busiest writer in British TV. The book contains correspondence (mostly email) […]

• julied wrote a new post, [Write On Wednesday] Starting Over, on the site Story A Day 1 month ago

  The Prompt
  

  It’s January: the time of resolutions and fresh starts.

  Write a story in which your character is starting over, has a fresh start, or resolves to do something differently from now […]

• JulieD wrote a new post, [Write On Wednesday] A Letter To A Friend, on the site Story A Day 2 months, 2 weeks ago

  Sometimes, while writing, I get hung up on my style.
  (Am I using too many adverbs? Am I describing the setting vividly enough? Even if it doesn’t mattter?)
  This is an absolute killer for a first-draft of […]

• JulieD wrote a new post, [Write On Wednesday] What Makes You Mad?, on the site Story A Day 2 months, 3 weeks ago

  When you see/read/hear something that makes you crazy, what do you do? Rant to a friend? Blog about it? Post a sarcastic comment on Facebook?
  
  Photo by Psycholabs
  Why not turn it into the premise for a story? […]

• jwordsmith wrote a new post, Labyrinth, on the site Wordsmithy 4 months, 1 week ago

  Inspired by this picture on Flickr.

  
  

  At the heart of the labyrinth, they used to say, was a minotaur – part man, part bull.

  But how could such a rational people ever have believed that, he wondered. How […]

• JulieD wrote a new blog post: [Write On Wednesday] Photo Prompt 4 months, 2 weeks ago

  Sometimes it’s easy to come up with a subject, a character, a problem or an issue on which to hang your short story. Some days it’s not. But that doesn’t mean you can’t write. I just means getting started might be harder. If you’re finding it hard to start writing today, hop on over to the Flickr [...]