Hi, I'm Julie Duffy, founder & director of StoryADay. Every year since 2010 I've challenged writers like you to prove to themselves that they can write more (and better) than they think, during the StoryADay May challenge. During the rest of the year, StoryADay supports you with the StoryAWeek newsletter (writing lessons & prompts), a popular podcast, blog posts, mini-challenges, courses, and a members' community. StoryADay May has become a fixture on the writing calendar, and the lively community is one of Writer's Digest's 101 Best Websites for Writers. Join me for info, workshops, challenges & courses, and of course, the StoryAWeek newsletter.
Are you telling The Whole Story?
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If you've been here for a while, you might remember that September has become One-Story month around here. For the past two years I've led a bunch of writers through a kinder-gentler creative event than the mad-dash of StoryADay May. Instead of writing a story a day, we focus on one story, all month. And I'm doing it all again, this year. Interested? Click here to join the waitlist. September is the perfect time to recommit to your writing, with its 'back to school' energy. And the One-Story Challenge is the perfect way to do it:
This year's theme is The Whole Story, and I'll be focused on making sure you can write more than simply bold beginnings, OR masterful middles, OR elegant endings but...you guessed it: the whole story. If you've taken part in any of the StoryADay challenges before, or if you're simply interested in this one, click here and leave a comment to let us know what you've learned in the past or are looking forward to, this September. I'll be back in touch with more details, soon. Keep writing, Julie |
Julie Duffy
Hi, I'm Julie Duffy, founder & director of StoryADay. Every year since 2010 I've challenged writers like you to prove to themselves that they can write more (and better) than they think, during the StoryADay May challenge. During the rest of the year, StoryADay supports you with the StoryAWeek newsletter (writing lessons & prompts), a popular podcast, blog posts, mini-challenges, courses, and a members' community. StoryADay May has become a fixture on the writing calendar, and the lively community is one of Writer's Digest's 101 Best Websites for Writers. Join me for info, workshops, challenges & courses, and of course, the StoryAWeek newsletter.
Read this at the blog and listen to the accompanying podcast here I’m already starting to think about next year’s StoryADay May and, here in this age of AI, I was struck with the awful thought: why bother? AI means you can generate 31 short story writing prompts in 90 seconds (5 minutes if you’re willing to wait for more polished prompts with a theme and multiple repetition. How do I know this? I asked it.) It takes me roughly 3 months of (admittedly part-time) work to research guest authors,...
Read online or listen, here It’s tempting to think that other writers have it easier, or other times were easier on writers. Wasn’t it easier to get published when there were more independent publishing houses? Wasn’t it easier to make a living at writing in the golden age of magazine publishing? All those other writers who are selling their work must have some kind of cheat code that they’re not sharing with us, right? This week I read the editorial in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy...
I’m thinking of doing a thing to make StoryADay May more accessible and enjoyable and I’d like to know if you’re interested. What Four weekly Workshop/Writing Dates during the challenge 75 minutes each 10-15 minutes of instruction and prompts 2 x 20 minute writing sprints 20-25 minutes to share snippets and discuss how it went(optional). Each week would feature a different prompt from the StoryADay Challenge (but you would be free, as always, to write whatever you want!). Writing together in...