It’s Week 2 of StoryADay September 2017 and I’m back with five prompts for you.
IN THIS EPISODE
The Prompts [1:16]
Connecting With Other Writers [6:46]
The Checklist and a Survey [12:44]
Warm Wishes for your Writing [15:33]
LINKS
The Survey: goo.gl/forms/O8fHSMfWAlDbrtBw2
StoryADay September has begun
In This Episode
The Prompts [5:03]
The Checklist [6:23]
The Importance of Reading [12:19]
This month’s theme at StoryADay is “Refilling The Well”, in which I encourage you to find many ways of rebooting your creativity…largely by taking a break from your writing.
Links:
Bookriot’s Best Books of 2017, So Far
The Nature Fix by Florence Williams (af)
Now that StoryADay May is in the rear view mirror, it’s time to dig out some of your stories and see what you can do to spruce them up.
Now, before you panic, I have a whole episode for you on learning to love revision. Give it a listen. Your stories are worth it!
in today’s prompt, you get a chance to write about a writer. This is not something I suggest often, but I think you’ve earned it.
Also: news about StoryFest 2017 (https://storyaday.org/storyfest-2017)
Find more about this prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170531-writer/
Today I wrap up the Story Structure series with a Hansel & Gretel, a story that starts with the Life Changing Moment.
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170530-hansel
Today’s #writingprompt is the second in a series talking about structure. Today the life-changing moment comes in the center of the story.
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170529-duckling/
Today’s #writingprompt is the first of three looking at story structure. Today: a Cinderella story.
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170528-cinderella
Today I encourage you to write a non-traditional love story for the 27th day of StoryADay May 2017
The prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170527/
Today’s #writingprompt is one of my faves: write a story in letter form.
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170526-letters
Today’s #writingprompt for StoryADay May is to write a prose sonnet: 14 sentences long.
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170525-sonnet
Today I’m prompting you to write a story within a story. To find out how, check out the blog post below
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170524-hidden-message/
Today we’re back to writing short story forms, after our week of working on support for the novelists among us.
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170523-list/
Today we tell a story focusing on the setting (and your five senses)
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170522-setting
Today we look at less tangible aspects of the world you’re building, and what makes them the way they are.
The prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170521-society
Continuing our week of short story writing, for novelists, today we look at what aspects of your world might need better examined.
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170520-concrete
Today we step back into the past, to when your protagonist met an important supporting character
The prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170519-secondary
Today we ask: what if the protagonist simply isn’t up to the job…
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170518-no
Today we continue diving deeply into your protagonist’s past with a story that takes place just before the story you really want to tell; or with a series of journal entries from the same time period.
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170517-journal
Today kicks off a week of prompts that are aimed at helping novelists spend part of this month deepening their understanding of a work in progress or a work-to-be. Of course, the prompts can all be used by short story writers too!
Today’s prompt encourages you to delve into the past of a protagonist in one of your stories (or novels) and unearth what makes them the way they are…
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170516-turning-point
Today’s writing prompt encourages you to take a second look at an earlier story.
The prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170515-second-look/
Today’s prompt encourages you to think like a writer.
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170514-maria
In today’s prompt, writer Tony Conaway invites you to write about a misapprehension.
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170513-tony
More about Tony: http://wayneaconaway.blogspot.com/
Today’s prompt is all about poetry. Or theft. Or possibly both…
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170512-elise/
More about Elise: 2 Elizabeths
In today’s prompt Bea from The Busy Muse encourages us to take a second look at our first idea.
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170516-bea/
Bea’s site: The Busy Muse
Today’s writing prompt involves a chance encounter.
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170510-sarah
Sarah’s Books: http://amzn.to/2pir5nN
Another new episode of Write Every Day, Not “Some Day”
Today’s prompt from Charlotte Rains Dixon is very, very silly. And sometimes that is exactly what we need…
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170509-charlotte
Charlotte’s page: http://www.wordstrumpet.com/
Today Marta Pelrine-Bacon encourages us to get a bit surprising in our writing.
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170508-marta
Marta’s novel: http://amzn.to/2pM1Xm7
A reflective prompt for Sunday, from writer and developmental editor Stuart Horwitz.
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170507-stuart
Stuart’s books: http://amzn.to/2q55Llr
In this prompt, Angela Ackerman invites us to explore our characters’ pasts, to find out what made them the people they are today.
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170506-angela/
Angela’s books: http://amzn.to/2p60wgn
Today’s prompt comes from paranormal mystery author Phil Giunta, which reminds me that suspense and intrigue are essential components of any story.
The Prompt: https://storyaday.org/20170505-phil
Phil’s Books: http://amzn.to/2qJTOxN
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