Write Every Day, Not "Some Day"!
Sending out an SOS to writers who are struggling with StoryADay this May Maybe you haven’t started yet. Maybe you’re eight stories in. Maybe you started and then, well, life got in the way and… But where ever you are, there are still 23 days left in May. What will you do – in the next 23 [...]
It’s here: the day you’ve been waiting for. Registrations are now open! (If you have a username from a previous year, it should still work. Just sign in, above, and make yourself at home.) What is StoryADay May? It’s my challenge to you: to challenge YOURSELF to write every day, not “some day”. Write and finish [...]
A guest post by regular contributor Jami who is reading a story a day throughout 2012.. This week: “A Telephone Call” by Dorothy Parker.
Thinking about signing up for StoryADay May but scared to take the plunge? If you need proof that YOU CAN WRITE, sign up for the StoryADay Warm-Up Writing Course starting this Friday, April 6. But sign up today and receive immediate access to the bonus Time To Write Workshop. What: An online short-story writing course for writers [...]
Intro: What Is Pinterest? Pinterest is a bookmarking site that lets you save images, rather than text links. Find a page (or picture) you like on the web, ‘pin’ it and add one of its images to a visual pinboard Pinterest is also a social network: find interesting images and links based on what friends [...]
Don’t even think of telling me you can’t think of anything to write. Not with a site like Pinterest at your fingertips. What is Pinterest? It’s a virtual scrapbook where people grab and save images from the web, all neatly categorized and ready for your browsing pleasure. It’s like looking over the shoulder of everyone [...]
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 written by someone else. Surely, my brain says to me, you could manage a story in six [...]
I’m excited to announce our very first free, live teleseminar coming up this Friday. StoryADay May is all about a creative splurge: massive amounts of writing, experimentation and fun. With any luck we all came out with a handful of stories that surprised us: they were really quite good and maybe there were some that [...]
Before we start, I just want to say that StoryADay May is about creativity and output and getting-the-words-on-the-page. It’s not about judging or being judged. But then I threw a writing contest in to the mix too. Why? To encourage everyone to go back into their new story pile and start to learn to revise [...]
For everyone waiting with baited breath for the results of the first ever Story A Day Contest… …results will be posted at 12:00 (Eastern US time) on Monday, August 15. See you then!
Step-by-step instructions on how to write every day, not "some day". Lessons, workbooks and timesheets included!
