This is it! You’ve made it!
This is the moment you’ve been waiting for. Today you’re going to take everything you’ve learned this month and write the story you’ve been waiting to write—the story you could not have written before today.
The prompt
Go big or go home
Tips
- If you have written at all this month, you’;; have shaken loose some writing muscles, learned ways of creating time, making your writing a priority, and silencing your inner critic sot hat you can get that first draft written. Now, take all the lessons you learned about what you do best, stuff your inner critic and your inner editor into the sack, shove it under the bed, close the bedroom door, lock it, put on some earmuffs and write the story you want to write, today.
- Go big. If you light dark stories, but think you’re too nice a person to really be writing dark…forget it. Go really dark.
- If you discovered this month that you’ve a talent for being funny, go big today, be hilarious. Be outrageous. Write something so silly, so funny that you make yourself laugh.
- If you’ve discovered a talent for romance, go gushy today. Target their heartstrings, make yourself cry, make yourself swoon. Don’t worry what anyone else will think. You never have to show the stories to anyone!
- Maybe you discovered you’r good at writing things a little bit sexy. Go wild today. Say the things you never thought you could say. If you’re worried, handwrite it and then have a ceremonial burning. If you’re really shy, tell the story to yourself by whispering it, in the shower.
- Go further than you ever thought you would. You can always dial it back and rewrite or use this memory as a yardstick for future writing when you know you’ve gone too far. But try to go too far today.
- Today is all about joy. Make sure you are feeling the joy, and whatever you decide to write. It can be short, it can be long, it can be brilliant, it can be a mess. Just have fun.
Thank you so much for playing along this month
. I hope you learned a few things. I hope you’ve got the creative kick in the pants you were looking for. **Leave a comment and let us know what you wrote today, what you learned this month just how glad you are to be finished 🙂
And remember, keep writing!!
Haven’t joined the mailing list yet? today’s a perfect day to do it. We’ll be back here tomorrow with the SWAGr accountability group to declare our writing goals for the next month. Come back each following month to tell everybody how you got on. The accountability group is the most powerful way I’ve discovered to stay true to my writing. I hope you’ll join us.
Meant to use this story for “Power of Three” prompt, but decided on using it for the final instead. Still unpolished, but I like where this is going so far…
https://atomicindigo.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/lake-manasarovar/
Wanna dance? Adult themes, and probably NSFW.
https://shanjeniah.com/2016/05/31/dancing-kifo-island-project-for-stad-may-31/
And I’m finally finished with this crazy experiment! The last one was a headache, so it better be worth it in the end! https://storiesin5minutes.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/the-bigger-they-are-storyaday-post/
Fantastic! Now you can go and lie down in a darkened room with a damp cloth on your forehead!
Thank you so much, Julie, for another fantastic StoryADay May!
My final story for the month had to be about mermaids – I’ve moved away from the fairy tale, though: https://only100words.xyz/2016/05/31/young-and-impatient/
Moar Mermaids! I think you should put together a collection…
DONE!!! 31 days of a new story each and every day!!! Woohoo. Even with nanowrimo, I didnt put new words on the page every single day. Followed the prompt for today, and did spoof on a man and woman pulling off a ‘caper’ with some sexual attraction thrown in. And it just flowed. Yey,
Coming up with something new daily , over and over, made it so much easier, after a while,- to just ‘come up with something new every day, over and over- after a while” 🙂 Also, I learned more about my voice and tone and secret pockets inside me that hadnt had the opportunity to come out. And I always love community- and support- both giving and getting. So many things- in addition to the clear desire -FINALLY- to submit! (which was hard to do with only novel drafts).
So THANK YOU JULIE and STORYADAY. I will see you Swag. bye for now. L
I am SO HAPPY to hear this. YAY!
Outstanding achievment. Well done.
Thanks!:)
How did you do, Julie? Would love to hear, if you want to share.
Hey, thanks for asking. While I didn’t write a story every day after the first two weeks, I did completely unblock my novel-in-progress, and pound out 14000 words on that, taking me over the hump of the climax. So I definitely call that a win!
By the way, in the choice between “go big or go home” I wrote a story about wanting to go home 🙂 I can’t claim it’s big because it’s just over 500 words.
You were here a couple of years ago for the Neil Gaiman guest prompt, weren’t you? That was about wanting to go home too!
And small can be big in spirit (as my sister will tell you!)
And I’m done!
I didn’t do the full challenge; I allowed myself weekends and the last Bank Holiday Monday off, but that still gives me twenty-one stories this month which is a personal best. And I wrote every day I had planned to write. So it’s all good.
Thank you so much for all the inspiration, Julie.
AWESOME! So glad it helped!
21 new stories – yay!
This is my attempt for this one (I am aware that is not exactly go big… I’ll just pack my bags then!) https://angietrafford.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/story-a-day-day-31fffaw/
You can hang around for a few more days…no-one outstays their welcome here.
Yes, I made it! I posted my 31st story today: “No Guarantee” http://wp.me/p12dOq-3wE. This was my first attempt at Story A Day and it was quite the effort for me: interesting, hard some days, easy some days.