Write Every Day, Not "Some Day"!
This week we have an exclusive interview at StoryADay.org with James Scott Bell, the #1 bestselling author of the writing book Plot & Structure, and thrillers like Deceived, Try Dying, Watch Your Back, One More Lie and many more. He stopped by StoryADay.org to talk about the importance of writing routines and practice — a [...]
if you want to stretch yourself and grow as a writer then go for it! It has been one of the most valuable learning experiences I could have had to develop my writing …it’s really infectious, once you start immersing yourself in writing, the words just keep flowing and flowing.
…Reading these short stories has made me realize that it’s a place I can go, a place I should go in my own fiction. …
Gabriela Pereira is a former StoryADay participant and has spent the past month launching her DIY MFA 2.0, an intensive writing program, all online. She took some time to tell me about the course and give some great advice for writers about to embark on a big writing jag (know anyone like that?) She is [...]
StoryADay alumnus Mart Pelrine-Bacon shares her submission success story: how she worked on the story, how she found the market and how it feels to be published.
This week I’m bringing you news of a great new short story writing challenge from StoryADay member, Simon Kewin. Next year Simon and his friends Milo James Fowler and Stephen V. Ramey have pledged to Write1Sub1 - that’s Write One Story and Submit One Story every week of the year (actually, Simon’s taking Christmas off, but still…). [...]
StoryADay participant Gabi (and her alter ego Iggi), also known as Gabriela Pereira is a writer/teacher/entrepreneur living in New York City. She has just graduated from an MFA Program in Creative Writing with a special focus on Writing for Children. She writes middle grade and teen fiction, with the occasional short story for grown-ups thrown in [...]
Another inspiring interview, this time with Heather Muir, a StoryADay alumnus who made it to 31 stories and then went off to Writer’s Camp and is working on her YA novel now. Heather says she used StoryADay to help her “make the transition from student writer to ‘Real’ writer”. Yay! Before you started StoryADay how [...]
As writers we’re curious. About everything. About people, technology, history, our neighbours, everything. I’m particularly curious about other writers and how they work, what keeps them going, why they do it. So here’s the first in a series of interviews with writers, starting with writers who took part in the StoryADay challenge last May. AdorablyAlice [...]
In 2006 Eden Kennedy, of fussy.org, inspired by National Novel Writing Month started her own ‘month’: National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo). For those of us who can’t possibly hope to carve out the time to writ a novel in a month, NaBloPoMo was a great alternative: commit to posting something every day, and see what [...]
Step-by-step instructions on how to write every day, not "some day". Lessons, workbooks and timesheets included!
