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Challenge Warm-Up Tasks
In case you’ve missed any, here are all the Warm-Up Tiny Tasks from April 2025, to help you get ready for StoryADay May. None of these is essential, but take a look through the list and click on one or two that seem like they might be helpful to you, wherever you are in your … Continue reading "Challenge Warm-Up Tasks"
Decide How To Track Your Progress
Today’s challenge: Decide how you will track your progress during the challenge, in a no-judgment way Remember when you were young and your parents/teachers said to you: “we just want you to do your best”? If you were anything like me, that phrase filled you with foreboding because you knew, deep down, that you couldn’t … Continue reading "Decide How To Track Your Progress"
Fast-Draft a Practice Story
Today’s challenge: Write a story in 40 minutes. It doesn’t have to be perfect (in fact, it shouldn’t be!). You’re practicing: Want to write today?Try the Draft in a Day Workshop available at a 50% discount until May 1, 2025 Discussion: Did you try it? What helped you keep moving forward? Was the ending rushed or just right?
Read A Story
Today’s Tiny Task is: Read a flash fiction story — preferably under 1,000 words. Notice: Try out what you’ve learned by writing a story today: purchase the Draft in a Day Workshop at a 50% discount until May 1, 2025. FLASH FICTION FURTHER READING Steve Almond, Stop Erin Morgenstern, The Cat and The Fiddle Ariel Berry, Useless Things … Continue reading "Read A Story"
Writing The World You Want
Today’s Tiny Task is: Make a list of 5 things you’d love to see more of in society Be Specific. Why? Because the things you want to see more of in the world are a mirror of what matters to you. And because specificity makes your storytelling relatable to readers. You can write hopeful stories, … Continue reading "Writing The World You Want"

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