StoryADay presents: I, WRITER - A Writing Podcast about Building a Successful Writing Practice

Sometimes what used to work for us no longer works. 

In this podcast I talk about the benefits and downsides of your writing commitments, I encourage you to scare yourself, and I revisit the subject …

Listening and reading are wonderful things, but what if they are holding you back from writing and finishing stories?

We learn writing by writing. Isn't it time you stop stalling?

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Today I’m going to show you a system for delighting readers (and editors), so that you get great reviews and raving fans who will share your work with other readers who also love what you’re writing.

Here at the end of January, I take a mini look back at the first month of the decade and talk about writing habits, reading habits, Alexa skills, Medium and more.

[1:20] My Short Story Reading Challe…

It's not a character flaw. If your resolutions have slipped and you haven't kept up all those big plans you made for this year (already!), it's not that you're a loser. It might just be that you have…

Languages evolve from the cultures that produce them, which offers a fertile world for writers to explore, whether you are writing contemporary, realistic fiction or futuristic and fantasy worlds.

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Tiny Wins (a combination of Tiny Habits and Epic Wins) and how you can use them to reinforce your good habits, along with an explanation of Stanford University researcher BJ Fogg's Behavioral Method …

In which I give you a peek into what I'm working on at StoryADay and encourage you to take a clear-eyed look at how far you've come, and what's next for you.

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Annual Review Worksheet: https://s…

A title is the sizzle that sells your story, but too many writers still struggle with this important part of the writing process. 

Today's podcast helps you level up your title game.

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This week's podcast features a clip from an episode from two years ago, in which I talked about the different cycles in a writing life. And I apologize in advance for making you crave some freshly ba…

Today I talk with Raphael Schaad about audio and voice assistants and all the opportunities (and pitfalls) for authors. 

Raphael Schaadt, who works with innovative entrepreneurs who are interested in…

It can be hard to write endings (So many logistics! So tired from writing the whole story!), but the ending is the thing that sends your reader off into the world feeling good about your story...or d…

Mindset and specific craft tips are equally important as you approach the chronological AND creative midpoints of any word of art.

In this episode I talk about

• The midpoint of the challenge
• But what…

Whether you're taking part in NaNoWriMo this month or simply trying to keep your rating on track, I have five tips from the trenches of the extreme creativity challenge world.

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The Nature…

In which I talk about how writing helped me in the wake of a recent, unexpected loss, and the importance of writing for an audience of one.

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Listen to my recent interview on the Unmistakable Cre…

Fresh from the trenches of StoryADay September, a question about how to get to the resolution of a story.

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More Julie on the Kiingo.com podcast: https://kiingo.com/blog/short-stories-with-julie…

It's tough to cross the threshold from the ordinary world to the magical world where you are a writer. I know. And i have some ideas...

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Are you ready to write a story a day this September so you can prove to yourself that you CAN make writing a priority, you CAN be more creative, you CAN get unblocked and write stories that amaze you…

The StoryADay community shares what they're writing and they're most likely to get that writing-high (you know the one, right?)

And in this episode I encourage you to make this last part of 2019 the …