Now that StoryADay is 10 years old, I’ve been doing a bit of tidying up around the site.
You’ve already seen the refreshed logo, but how about the refreshed shop?
Fancy taking a StoryADay course, grabbing an ebook full of prompts or advice, or ordering a StoryADay notebook or mug, to keep you company as you write?
Now you can find them all in the reorganized StoryADay store!
A video lesson on how to write a short story in 40 minutes or thereabouts.
Set a timer for 40 minutes and to write a story in that time.
This past weekend we celebrated StoryFest, here at StoryaDay.org.
StoryFest is our annual ‘recital’, our celebration of the work we did in May.
Some of our writers shared stories, others liked, commented and posted on social media about them. Others…didn’t.
And that’s OK. Because not everyone was ready.
(and yes, we have people in each of those stages here in the StoryADay community)
Johan, a traveling salesman, returns to his medieval village during the black plague outbreak. As he enters, he meets a stark, hungry man on the village’s outskirts. The storyline follows the verses of “Ring Around O’Roses.”
Jerry Harwood was born in Ooltewah, TN. His mother was an elementary school teacher and he spent his afternoons reading books in her classroom or the nearby library. He currently is a writer, which makes sense based on the fact you are reading this here. He has experimented with other occupations: camp director, program director at a counseling center, college professor and middle school teacher. Jerry has backpacked Europe, taught in a Ukrainian University, worked in Rwanda after the genocide, is a first responder, sort-of remodeled a VW Thing, and has a love for Cherry Coke Zero that is only surpassed by his love for his wife, six children, and grandson.
I fixated upon a stout and pudgy elderly man in front of me. His demeanor looked awfully rigid and his eyes flitted unwittingly. It must have been his first-time.
Urvi Roy is an avid writer of realistic fiction and opinionated pieces on societal events. When she’s not scribbling out the words to a creative piece of flash fiction, short story, or poem, she can be found devouring the works of Kiera Cass or the mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, dancing to classical Indian or contemporary pieces, practicing lines for a theater performance, or trying to sew with a new piece of fabric. She was wholeheartedly inspired to write this piece of flash fiction by her preoccupation with cliff-hanger ending, mysterious, and suspenseful episodes that leave viewers or readers, like herself, thoroughly insatiable!
A kind-hearted mother wants the best future for her daughter but is forced to face the choices she made in her past. Will Rohanna move forward with confidence or will her daughter have to make the same sacrifices?
Sophia Heotzler graduated from Geneva College with a BA in English literature. She grew up with deaf parents, making her first language American Sign Language. She loves to pour this unique perspective in her writing, using visual language to explore inner conflict and relational challenges. Inspired by authors like Jane Austen, C.S. Lewis, and J.K. Rowling, Sophia loves to blend real-life issues with fantastic imagery.
An old homeless man shares his experience with a young man.
Reading interest is eclectic. StoryADay was a delightful challenge to get words down on the page daily.
The Tell-Tale Heart retold from the POV of the old man.
Alan Grant is a writer from Ireland with a focus and emphasis on humorous fiction.
Jason Mourn, still struggling to recover from a bad breakup has a chance to change his future by altering his cringeworthy past.
Alan Grant is a writer from Ireland with a focus and emphasis on humorous fiction.
A young woman decides to take a Covid-era chance. (Not a screw-social-distancing chance; more like a he-may-Unfriend-me-for-this chance.) Now all she has to do is bring her past, hold the present, and have faith in future as she meets him first time amidst these fading gravestones.
A Bread Loaf Scholar and Pushcart Prize nominee, Anneliese completed her MFA in Creative Writing at UBC, and was shortlisted for the 2016 HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction. The prompt for this story was one she mightily resisted—until the character showed up and suggested she get out of the way. Anneliese works on her YA climate fiction, a Middle Grade ghost story, and lockdown flash fiction in Vancouver, BC. Pre-border closure, much of her writing time was spent in Boulder, CO, and points between on the train. She can also be found at http://laughinginthelanguage.com/
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