Have you signed up for StoryADay May 2019 yet?
I’ll send you a prompt like this, every day in May.
This week we all watched in horror as Notre Dame burned. It was a great loss for human cultural heritage and a personal wrench for many.
And it made me wonder about other stories we might tell.
Write a story from the perspective of a non-human character
Last week we wrote about connections. This week, an interconnected theme: support. We need it in our writing lives, and our characters are looking for it, in our stories.
Write A Story About A Character Who Needs Support
Finding support for your writing can seem like a weird idea; isn’t writing all about one person, alone in their room, listening to their imaginary friends?
It turns out that support from other writers (with whom we are absolutely not competing) is a great way to advance your own writing.
In this episode I talk about where to find support, how to make the most of it, and how to grow your network in the least-painful way possible, even if you are chronically shy.
LINKS
This week’s writing prompt: https://storyaday.org/wow-connection
This month’s theme at StoryADay is about finding support in our writing lives, and that has me thinking about connection.
I have this thesis that writing is all about connections: connecting with another person (your reader)’s brain; connecting with the writers who inspired you; connecting with other people working in your genre; connecting with your past and future selves; connecting with the great web of human experience on this planet.
So today I want you to write a story that touches on some of these things.
Write A Story About Connections
If you share you story somewhere (and here’s why you might not want to) post a link here so we can come and read it.
Did you write today? How did you get on? Who did you write about? Leave a comment!
Original Photo by Bernard Spragg
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Leave a comment below telling us how you got on last month, and what you plan to do next month, then check back in on the first of each month, to see how everyone’s doing.
Continue reading “SWAGr for April 2019”This prompt was inspired by Jennifer Wortman’s Theories of the Point of View Shifts in AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long”
Write A Story Based on A Favorite Song
This story is a great example of a short story that doesn’t follow a narrative structure but succeeds anyway.
Its full title is Theories of the Point of View Shifts In AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long”
In your writing practice, what counts as ‘writing’? Do you give yourself credit for reading time? Revisions? Taking classes? Or do you feel guilty about now being productive when you aren’t adding new words to a story?
RESOURCES
Does Thinking Count As Writing: https://stada.me/think
Learning To Make Choices: https://stada.me/choice
Writing Prompts – Scenarios: https://stada.me/scenarios
Writing Prompts – Word Lists: https://stada.me/wordlists
Beyond Word Count: https://stada.me/track
Stay Excited About Your Writing: https://stada.me/excited
Write When You Don’t Feel Like It: https://stada.me/dontwanna
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This prompt was inspired by Amy Silverberg’s story Suburbia! which you can find in The Best American Short Stories 2018
Write a story with some magical realism in it
This prompt was inspired by Kristen Iskandrian’s short story Good With Boys, which I reviewed in the Reading Room.
Write a story based on a trip you took in childhood