Write Every Day, Not "Some Day"!
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 [...]
Later this week I’m running a teleseminar on Editing and Revising for Short Story Writers (You can find out more by signing up here) This seminar won’t be a grammar lesson because I’ve noticed that most of the writers around here are, well, pretty good writers. But, in case you need a little help, or [...]
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 [...]
So you’ve spent a month writing stories. Now what? Announcing: StoryADay.org’s First Writing Contest! I am thrilled to announce that Heidi Durrow, author of last year’s breakout debut novel (and NYT bestseller) The Girl Who Fell From The Sky has agreed to judge our first ever StoryADay Writing Contest. Anyone who has a StoryADay username and [...]
Today’s guest post from Melissa Dinwiddie is a wonderful primer on how to use the StoryADay community to help you become more productive than you ever dreamed. Thanks, Melissa! Do you know one of the most effective things you can do to get your writing done? Make yourself accountable. I don’t know the statistics, but [...]
Seedpod Publishing is a “micro-publishing cooperative” — which sounds to me like a collection of authors and publishing people banding together to distribute literary fiction, digitally. They publish books and help with promotion and distribution – all digital and Digital Rights Management free, so your readers can read your book wherever they want, not linked [...]
Inspired by a postcard-length short story by science fiction master Arthur C. Clarke, Postcard Shorts accepts stories that are, well, postcard length. (That translates to about 250 words) Pretty much anything goes, as long as it’s not completely devoid of merit (in the Editor’s opinion). The Editor’s decision is final. The copyright for anything you [...]
Six Sentences is a place to publish just that: six sentence stories. It has been one of Writer’s Digest’s 101 Best Sites For Writers and publishes a new six-sentence story every day. It’s a great (non-paying) market for flash fiction writers. It offers readers the chance to vote the story “good”, or “spectacular” (a ratings [...]
Ploughshares literary magazine was founded in 1971 at Emerson College. This years Emerging Fiction Writers Contest is open for submissions from Jan 16 -Mar 15 2011 Ploughshares Eligibility We define an “emerging writer” as someone who has no book, has won no major awards, and who has published fiction in less than five national publications. [...]
Step-by-step instructions on how to write every day, not "some day". Lessons, workbooks and timesheets included!
First Story Cubes Winner(s)
Ack! There were so many great comments on yesterday’s post about creativity and productivity for writers that I had a hard time choosing a winner. And in the end I chose two (and am suffering horrible guilt about leaving out all the other people who wrote great comments). But don’t fret, because you can all [...]
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