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Writing prompts from the 2024 StoryADay Challenge, in your inbox, daily. 

  • Prepare to day with the Keep Writing Workbook, when you sign up
  • In May, be inspired by prompts from mystery guest authors
  • Make your own rules
  • Prove to yourself that you can write more (& better) than you knew!

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Julie Duffy, Founder & Director

Hi, I’m Julie Duffy and I help writers like you build a creative practice that is rewarding and fits your life, today, not ‘some day’.

Get the Keep Writing Workbook today PLUS daily writing prompts from Mary Robinette Kowal, K. B. KarleRachel Swearingen and more, in May

…and I help writers like you build a creative practice that is rewarding and fits your life, today, not ‘some day’.

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2023 StoryADay Challenge

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Start Writing Now

Start here: Get the help you need to brainstorm and complete a short story any time. Includes my top tips for delighting readers.
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Dig Deeper

Then: Treat yourself to a self-paced online writing 'retreat' that teaches you all you need to know to start, develop and finish three short stories and discover your own best practices as a writer...who writes!
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Next: Subscribe to a weekly story prompt and writing lesson rolled into one. No bells or whistles, just great information designed to inspire and instruct...in your inbox, weekly.
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Short Story Intensive

Ready for more? Develop your writing practice by joining us on this 6-module journey where you'll write up to 11 story drafts and learn the skills to build a satisfying writing practice. Join the self-paced option or live cohort
I, WRITER Course

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Year-Round Support

Looking for Accountability? Sometimes you need some people around you! Join our year-round virtual writing conference, retreat, workshop, and mastermind group. Opens in sprint and autumn.
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Writing Articles & Advice

Writing articles, prompts, podcasts and interviews from 2010 until today. Check out the archives and stay up to date with the best in writing inspiration from StoryADay

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Writing Articles & Advice

Writing articles, prompts, podcasts and interviews from 2010 until today. Check out the archives and stay up to date with the best in writing inspiration from StoryADay

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Story Prompt archive

Dive into the archive of writing prompts I've been building since 2010. Includes tips & writing advice on character, plot, point of view, tension...and how to finish stories!

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Story Prompt archive

Dive into the archive of writing prompts I've been building since 2010. Includes tips & writing advice on character, plot, point of view, tension...and how to finish stories!

StoryADay May Challenge

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Get all the writing prompts including prompts in your inbox every day, including prompts from guest authors like Roxane Gay, Deesha Philyaw, Fran Wilde and more...

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All the extra content I created for the Superstars during the challenge...none of the commitment. Join us for one month, keep the content all year!
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Writing Articles & Advice

Writing articles, prompts, podcasts and interviews from 2010 until today. Check out the archives and stay up to date with the best in writing inspiration from StoryADay

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Sign up for the I, WRITER Course today and build a writing practice you can love today, not ‘some day’. LEAP DAY SPECIAL $229 (regularly

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What We Crave

“In a digital world saturated with technicolor brilliance and filtered, unobtainable beauty, modern humans seem unmoored and at sea. We crave stories to tell us who we are.” – Min Jin Lee, Best American Short Stories 2023

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