In case you haven’t been paying attention (and why would you? I’m sure you have other things in your life), things have been pretty busy at StoryADay this year.
Here’s my round-up of writing resources and events from the past year.
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On a Personal Note
My personal writing year was gratifyingly full of new drafts–I had hoped to complete 12 and in fact completed 6, which I consider a triumph given the way my year was disrupted by family emergencies and LOTS of non-leisure travel and stress. I also came out of the year with a professional-rate sale and a renewed commitment to sending stories out into the world.
But what surprised me most was the StoryADay tally of STUFF WE DID. Take a look:
Coaching
14 x 1:1 Coaching sessions – If you feel the need for a one-off ‘Writing Therapy’ Session, to get unblocked, to reignite your fire, or to make a plan of action for your writing, you can book some time on my calendar here.
My coaching session was amazing. Not only did we address the original issue and come up with some great alternatives, she probed me about my current project and helped me to come up with some new ideas that are going to revolutionize it. I’m so excited about how the ideas we tossed around are going to affect this revision of my book. I feel like I’m on track to accomplish what I wanted.
Heidi Clausius
On The Blog
214 Free Resources
- Jumpstart Your Writing Challenge Free challenge – January
- Warm-up Breakthrough writing challenge Free resources: April & Oct
- StoryADay Challenge – over 500 writers received daily prompts by email during May & November events from wonderful, award-winning writers: P. Djèlí Clark, Mary Robinette Kowal, John Wiswell, Lori Ostlund, Kim Coleman Foote, Sasha Brown, R. S. A Garcia, Jennifer Hudak, Tim Waggoner, Rachel Bolton, Julia Elliot, Kai Lovelace, Anglea Sylvaine, Rich Larson, F. E. Choe,Emma Burnett , Patricia A. Jackson, Allegra Hyde, and more
- 149 blog posts, including 27 “Something for the Weekend” deep dives into the art and craft of writing and building a writing life
- 54 writing prompts
- 17 podcast episodes
- 65 video shorts
11 Opt-In Resources
- 3 x Critique Week (12 meetings, 51 stories received feedback from 4 readers each)
- New One-Story Challenge – Mastering The Middle – new month-long challenge for 2025
- New 6-Point Submission System Workshop – get those stories off your hard drive and into editors’ hands!
- 6 x I, WRITER Course Office Hours
In the Superstars Community
633 Ongoing Events
602 (!!) writing sprints facilitated — many of these are hosted by member-volunteers and each host brings their own flavor to their sprints. (I have lost control in the most delightful way possible!)
25 hangouts (hosted by me) + 4 Launchpads (member run meetings) – opportunities to be with other writers, talk about writing, share resources, and just BE writers together.
A year of asynchronous support and resource-sharing in our Slack Workspace
11 Special Events
- 3 Critique Weeks (12 meetings, 51 stories received feedback from 4 readers each)
- Book Club (Jan-Mar)
- Revision Hotseats (Jan)
- Be Precise Workshop (Mar)
- Character at the Core: Build Your Story From The Inside Out Workshop (July)
- Get Better At Bragging Workshop (Aug) 2 timeslots – also delivered to Mary Robinette Kowal’s Lady Astronaut Club
- One-Story Challenge – Mastering The Middle (Sept)
- SWAGR Weekly Planning Method – a new weekly planning and accountability (Nov-Dec, weekly)
- Annual Plan Workshop – Coming Soon as a replay you can access
4 Experiments
- Revision Hotseats (deep dive into a small number of stories that have been revised )
- 6 Book Club meetings (monthly deep dive into four short stories from an anthology)
- SWAGR weekly planning meeting (plan to continue in 2026)
- Critique Week shared language plan and BOSS Critique System (more about this coming soon)
6 Worksheet Bundles & Resources Created
2026 Productivity Tracker (free)
Get Better at Bragging
Guide to Preparing for a Writer’s Conference
Breakthrough Challenge Workbook
SWAGR Method (and Randomizer)
I, WRITER Planning & Logging Templates (expanded and updated for 2026) – worksheets and trackers for every brain type
- BIG PICTURE PLANNING
- Annual Overview Calendar Page
- Goals Overview
- PACE Yourself Worksheet
- Quarterly Calendar page
- SWAGr plan overview page
- Triumph Tracker
- What Am I Doing? (And Why?) Daily Overview Page
- 1-6 Projects planner
- CALENDAR PAGES
- Week at a glance (Sunday start, landscape)
- Week at a glance (Monday start, landscape)
- Weekly Planner (morning, afternoon, evening, Monday start, landscape)
- Weekly Planner (morning, afternoon, evening, Sunday start, landscape)
- Weekly Planner (morning, afternoon, evening, any day start, landscape)
- MAKE IT MANAGEABLE
- SWAGR Method – This Week/Not This Week page, linear
- SWAGR Method – This Week/Not This Week page, non-linear
- SWAGR Method Randomizer toy
- Weekly overview sheet (priorities, tracking, portrait)
- Focus For The Week overview (priorities, tiny next steps, notes, portrait)
- Daily Plan(ish) – Gentle planning page (portrait)
- Mind Map starter template
- Tiny Next Steps Tracker
- Daily Review worksheet (traditional)
- Gentle Daily Assessment worksheet
- Weekly Review worksheet
- Market Research Checklist
- Project Planner One-Sheet
- Submission Planner printable ‘job sheet’
- Activity Logs & Trackers
- Activity Web (non linear)
- Activity Log (linear)
- I, WRITER Tracker (track which parts of the writing life you’re focusing on throughout the year)
- Monthly Habit/Task tracker (circular)
- Submission Tracker table (linear)
- Story Tracker (what you wrote and where you kept it)
Thank You
All of this, of course, takes time, hosting fees, and brain power. If you’d like to get more support while supporting my work, consider upgrading to the StoryADay Superstars Community.
If you want a little dedicated time on my calendar, I’ve started offering formalized 1:1 “Writing Therapy” sessions. Let’s talk about your writing, your projects, your ambitions, and how to make them all line up!
Stuck on your next step? Let’s talk.
But most of all,
Keep writing,
Julie