116 – Critique Week Is Back! Oct 21-31
Join our critique ‘week’, Oct 21-31 (because wouldn’t it be nice if every week had a couple of extra days to get stuff done?) and
Join our critique ‘week’, Oct 21-31 (because wouldn’t it be nice if every week had a couple of extra days to get stuff done?) and
This month, as we transition from StoryADay September into the rest of our writing lives, I encourage you to slow down, turn left, and break
In which I talk about when (writerly) promiscuity is good, and announce the winners of the September giveaway of Windy Lynn Harris’s book, “Writing &
This could be a really short podcast (just me screaming “NO!”), but I decided to talk in a more constructive way about the reasons why
Firstly I talk about some people who are making short and long fiction work for them: Mary Robinette Kowal, whose new novels The Calculating Stars
Writing a longer work like a novel can get a bit overwhelming. Today I encourage you to use short stories to explore areas of your
Writers write. Professional writers write a lot.
The StoryADay (https://storyaday.org) challenge exists to help you learn how much you’re capable of writing in a month. The Write Every Day, Not “Some Day” podcast helps you figure out how to keep that commitment up for the rest of your life.
Each 10-15 minute episode tackles a particular topic and gives you a writing assignment to complete before the next episode.
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Writing a story a day has been very good practice to develop a positive orientation to writing endeavors, not to mention that it has led me to meet new people, be part of a community and find my writing feet again.
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