(BuddyPress) Recent Networkwide Posts

• Julie Duffy wrote a new post, [Writing Prompt] Mashup, on the site Story A Day 1 week ago

  I’ve been reading a lot about marketing recently. One of the techniques that strikes me as a double-edged sword is the advice to create an elevator pitch for your story that goes like this:

  It’s like Alien meets […]

• Julie Duffy wrote a new post, [Reading Room] Death By Scrabble by Charlie Fish, on the site Story A Day 1 week, 1 day ago

  I loved this story.

  It’s filed under ‘humor’ and it definitely made me laugh out loud a few times, in a black-humor kind of way.

  The story begins,

  “It’s a hot day and I hate my wife.”

  There: that’s funny […]

• Julie Duffy wrote a new post, An Interesting Publishing Experiment, on the site Story A Day 1 week, 1 day ago

  Our friend Simon Kewin[1. past participant and recent Guest Prompter] has just announced that the first six chapters of his new novel ENGN are being released free at Wattpad.com.

  Over the next six weeks Simon […]

• Julie Duffy wrote a new post, [Writing Prompt] Perseverance, on the site Story A Day 2 weeks, 1 day ago

   

  This is the first weekly prompt since the end of StoryADay 2013. Congrats to all those who took part. If you finished even one story you’ll know something about this week’s prompt:
  The Prompt
  Write a story […]

• Julie Duffy wrote a new post, [Reading Room] The Judge’s Will by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, on the site Story A Day 2 weeks, 1 day ago

  Read this story in The New Yorker
  Set in Bombay, this is a skillful story that features four distinct characters: an elderly judge, his wife, his son and his long-time “kept woman”. The author is economical and […]

• Julie Duffy wrote a new post, Take The 7DayStory Challenge Today, on the site Story A Day 2 weeks, 2 days ago

  The 7DayStory is a new short story writing challenge, from the creators of StoryADay May and the DIY MFA:

  Write and revise a story over the next seven days
  Use the hashtag #7DayStory to connect with other […]

• Julie Duffy wrote a new post, You Win!, on the site Story A Day 2 weeks, 5 days ago

  
  Well, it’s here: the end of StoryADay May 2013.

  Thank you for taking part, for paying attention, for commenting and for sharing, you great big Winner, you.

   
  You Win

  If you wrote a story this […]

• Julie Duffy wrote a new post, [Writing Prompt] The Non-Memoir, on the site Story A Day 3 weeks ago

  Don’t miss this news about a new week-long challenge to keep you writing in June — and this one comes with a built-in revision component!

  The Prompt
  Take an event/experience from your own life and […]

• Julie Duffy wrote a new post, Take The 7DayStory Challenge, on the site Story A Day 3 weeks ago

  Just because StoryADay May 2013 is ending soon, don’t think I’m letting you off the hook. You’ve developed some great writing habits this past month and you shouldn’t let those go.

  To encourage you to continue […]

• Julie Duffy wrote a new post, [Writing Prompt] Thwarted, on the site Story A Day 3 weeks ago

  One of the best pieces of advice I received for writing short stories was to make your character want something. Once your character wants something you have a structure for the whole story: put obstacles in their […]