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Hosted by Julie Duffy, StoryADay.org has run the StoryADay May challenge each year since 2010, and is home to a writers' community, creativity lab, and podcast. FInd out more at storyaday.org
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· Sep 17
For years I've run StoryADayRedux in September because I didn't want to step on the November's noveling toes. But maybe this year it won't matter so much? What do you think? StoryADay November, for those of you who couldn't make May happen (or want to do it all again)? storyaday.org/signup
REALLY enjoying this collection, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025, edited by @nnedi.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
REALLY enjoying this collection, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025, edited by @nnedi.bsky.social
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Chill Subs 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐠 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 open for voting. If you love what we do, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬! www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Please consider nominating us in one or more categories and help spread the word!
Love and INK 🖤
Please consider nominating us in one or more categories and help spread the word!
Love and INK 🖤
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Chill Subs 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐠 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 open for voting. If you love what we do, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬! www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Please consider nominating us in one or more categories and help spread the word!
Love and INK 🖤
Please consider nominating us in one or more categories and help spread the word!
Love and INK 🖤
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Addendum to this excellent post:
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Addendum to this excellent post:
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
You do not have to be good at something to have fun.
Don't hold yourself up to hyperrealistic or professional or your favourite ___ standards.
You're new and learning!
Be YOU, not a copy of someone else.
Good article on the potential downside of gratitude for people in the arts from @writersdigest.bsky.social : www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/...
The Stranglehold of Gratitude | Happy Thanksgiving to All the Writers Out There
Author Jacqueline Faber shares thoughts on the stranglehold of malevolent gratitude inspired from conversations with novelist Clare Mackintosh.
www.writersdigest.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Good article on the potential downside of gratitude for people in the arts from @writersdigest.bsky.social : www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/...
In today's #writingprompt for StoryADay I invite you to explore some old haunts: storyaday,org/2025-day-27
November 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
In today's #writingprompt for StoryADay I invite you to explore some old haunts: storyaday,org/2025-day-27
Today's #writingprompt for StoryADay comes from editor Tiffany Yates Martin and invites you to reimagine...the impossible! storyaday.org/2025-day-26
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today's #writingprompt for StoryADay comes from editor Tiffany Yates Martin and invites you to reimagine...the impossible! storyaday.org/2025-day-26
I love my writer’s group co-working sessions. Where else could you start your day with an animated discussion of “slinked vs slunk”? So validating :D
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I love my writer’s group co-working sessions. Where else could you start your day with an animated discussion of “slinked vs slunk”? So validating :D
Today's #writingprompt comes from John Wiswell, whose newest novel "Wearing The Lion" is available for pre-order now. storyaday.org/2025-day-25
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today's #writingprompt comes from John Wiswell, whose newest novel "Wearing The Lion" is available for pre-order now. storyaday.org/2025-day-25
We're approaching the end of Week 3 of StoryADay and now for something completely different: a #writingprompt from author Julia Elliott that encourages you to explore your surreal side: storyaday.org/2025-day-24
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We're approaching the end of Week 3 of StoryADay and now for something completely different: a #writingprompt from author Julia Elliott that encourages you to explore your surreal side: storyaday.org/2025-day-24
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I hope you'll all enter - love running this comp every year and always so honoured by everyone who sends in their work
There are now just eight maids-a-milking until the #WelkinWritingPrize is open for entries once again. Hope you're busy scribbling your stories.
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I hope you'll all enter - love running this comp every year and always so honoured by everyone who sends in their work
Today's #writingpromt for StoryADay comes from author Rachel Bolton,and is, uh, pointed! storyaday.org/2025-day-23
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today's #writingpromt for StoryADay comes from author Rachel Bolton,and is, uh, pointed! storyaday.org/2025-day-23
Did you write to this Cherry Red #writingprompt for StoryADay from Angela Sylvaine?
November 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Did you write to this Cherry Red #writingprompt for StoryADay from Angela Sylvaine?
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Yes, there’s a human drive to reach for the stars, but what happens after we fulfill that goal?
The 22 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#FULFILL
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
The 22 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#FULFILL
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
November 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Yes, there’s a human drive to reach for the stars, but what happens after we fulfill that goal?
The 22 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#FULFILL
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
The 22 November 2025 #ScifaikuSaturday #prompt is
#FULFILL
✍️ 👽 🛸 👍
#AmWriting
#BlueSkyPoetry
#Haiku
#MicroPoem
#PoetsOfBlueSky
#Poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#SciFi
#SFF
#WritingPrompts
The responses in this thread are a, wholesome and b, stuffed full of Story Sparks (tm)…
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The responses in this thread are a, wholesome and b, stuffed full of Story Sparks (tm)…
Today's #writingprompt invites you to take humor seriously (but not to be too serious about it). storyaday.org/2025-day-20
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today's #writingprompt invites you to take humor seriously (but not to be too serious about it). storyaday.org/2025-day-20
Today's #writingprompt comes from writer Grant Faulkner. Check it out: storyaday.org/2025-day-19
November 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today's #writingprompt comes from writer Grant Faulkner. Check it out: storyaday.org/2025-day-19
Today's #writingprompt comes from author Tim Waggoner who invites us into a method for ensuring our stories are always ABOUT something.... storyaday.org/2025-day-18
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today's #writingprompt comes from author Tim Waggoner who invites us into a method for ensuring our stories are always ABOUT something.... storyaday.org/2025-day-18
Today's #writingprompt comes from writer Walter Lawn and takes its inspiration from poetry (but don't let that scare you!). storyaday.org/2025-day-17
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today's #writingprompt comes from writer Walter Lawn and takes its inspiration from poetry (but don't let that scare you!). storyaday.org/2025-day-17
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✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Today's #writingprompt for #StoryADay urges you to take your inspiration from a piece of original art. storyaday.org/2025-day-16
November 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Today's #writingprompt for #StoryADay urges you to take your inspiration from a piece of original art. storyaday.org/2025-day-16
Today's #writingprompt for #StoryADay comes from Neha Mediratta and lets you find a way into your character's world. storyaday.org/2025-day-15
November 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Today's #writingprompt for #StoryADay comes from Neha Mediratta and lets you find a way into your character's world. storyaday.org/2025-day-15
Relaxing with the Best Columbo EVAH…
November 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Relaxing with the Best Columbo EVAH…
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New #WriterBeware blog post: Yet another in the growing catalog of AI-driven writing scams from Nigeria: a multi-layered marketing/editing referral scheme that begins with a message or email from someone purporting to be a well-known author writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
If a Famous Author Calls, Hang Up: Anatomy of an Impersonation Scam - Writer Beware
You open your email program one morning. The usual work stuff. Some spam (annoying that it got past your filters!). A couple of newsletters (maybe later). You sip your coffee, scroll down. Wait. What’...
writerbeware.blog
November 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
New #WriterBeware blog post: Yet another in the growing catalog of AI-driven writing scams from Nigeria: a multi-layered marketing/editing referral scheme that begins with a message or email from someone purporting to be a well-known author writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
Focus on the little things, to make a big impact--this week's "Something for the Weekend", from my #writing desk to yours: storyaday.org/sftw123
November 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Focus on the little things, to make a big impact--this week's "Something for the Weekend", from my #writing desk to yours: storyaday.org/sftw123
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Today's StoryADay writing prompt comes from author Emma Burnett bsky.app/profile/slas... and encourages you to reinvent things! storyaday.org/2025-day-14
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Today's StoryADay writing prompt comes from author Emma Burnett bsky.app/profile/slas... and encourages you to reinvent things! storyaday.org/2025-day-14