StoryADay presents: I, WRITER - A Writing Podcast about Building a Successful Writing Practice
Welcome to StoryADay Presents: I, WRITER – A Writing Podcast about building a fulfilling writing life.
Hosted by author and StoryADay founder Julie Duffy, this show helps writers of all kinds—novelists, short-story authors, poets, or anyone building a creative habit—turn writing into a sustainable, joyful practice.
Each episode blends practical writing tips with mindset reframes drawn from the I, WRITER Framework (Imagine, Write, Refine, Improve, Triumph, Engage, Repeat), to help you avoid overwhelm and make more progress, faster.
Whether you’re drafting your first novel, exploring short fiction, or fighting writer’s block, you’ll find strategies here to strengthen your writing routine, spark creativity, and keep going.
With insights from the popular StoryADay Challenge and years of guiding writers worldwide, Julie shows you how to create momentum, finish projects, and share your work with confidence.
Music credit: Alan McPike (http://standardstrax.com)
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 334
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
136 - Art Is
Do you give yourself permission to make your art, to write? Do you feel like you have to ask permission? What ripples spread out when you write?
135 - Courage
This week someone accused me of doing something decadent. It was meant as a joke, but it got under my skin, and It got me thinking about all the things we have to do as writers that might seem decade…
134 - Dialogue and Distractions
Talking about dialogue, I discovered a rule that can sometimes be broken. Also: procrastination!!
133 - Stepping Onto A Larger Stage
Are you holding yourself back? In this episode, I look at three events that have me thinking about what we all have to gain from doing our creative work with integrity, tenacity and bravery.
132 - Compelling Characters
Readers can't love your story if they don't love your character.
LINKS
https://storayday.org/creating-compelling-characters
131 - Celebrate!
A raw, mini episode to celebrate the successful conclusion of StoryADay May 2019
links:
Day 31: https://StoryADay.org/2019-05-31
SWAGr for June: https://storyaday.org/swagr-jun-2019/
130 - Short Story Framework
A popular resource at StoryADay is the StADa Short Story Framework.
Now it's available to everyone as a download: https://stada.me/framework
Also in this episode I talk about the upcoming events at S…
129 - Motivation for May
11 days into StoryADay May 2019 and things might not be going quite as you planned, in your writing.
In this episode I share some strategies for saving your StoryADay May 2019, and share some feedbac…
128 - Character Counts
This week I talk about character: how to take the inner journey of your character and show it through external actions.
127 - Finding Support
Finding support for your writing can seem like a weird idea; isn't writing all about one person, alone in their room, listening to their imaginary friends?
It turns out that support from other write…
126 - What Is Writing?
In your writing practice, what counts as 'writing'? Do you give yourself credit for reading time? Revisions? Taking classes? Or do you feel guilty about now being productive when you aren't adding ne…
125 - Goals vs. Reality
Setting writing goals is one thing. Living with them, quite another.
This month's theme at StoryADay is Goals Vs. Reality.
LINKS:
Your invitation to the March Hangout: https://stada.me/319hang
Breaki…
124 - Being A Writer
What kind of writer are you? What kind of culture do you want to create? What kind of writing life are you aiming for?
In this episode I ponder these questions and talk a little about this month's th…
123 - When The Writing Stalls
What do you do when it's difficult to write? Here's what I did this week.
You can find all the links and discussion I talked about, here: https://storyaday.org/when-writing-stalls
And here's the Seri…
122 - A Room Of One's Own
As a writer, what do you need? Do you need a desk? A room of your own? Scrivener? A pad and paper and something to lean on?
The answer is probably 'it depends'. And it's important to figure out what …
121- Happy Hogmanay 2018
In which I encourage you to celebrate the end/start of the year however makes you happiest!
If you want planning docs find them here: https://stada.me/pace
If you want to set some goals for January, …
120 - Identity And Outcomes
Should you focus on your goals (the outcome you want) or your identity ("I am a writer") if you want to succeed?
This week I talk about the idea that it is much easier to create a good habit if you s…
119 - Creative Play
Encouraging you to find the creative joy in your writing at this midpoint of NaNoWriMo (or what ever writing challenge has you down), through playfulness.
Rekindling Your Writing Excitement Mid-Pr…
118 - UnStick Your Writing During NaNoWriMo, Part 2
Advice about how to get unstuck when you still have 30,000 words to write!
RESOURCES:
Unsticking Yourself thread on Twitter: https://stada.me/unstuck
Tony Conaway's article on public readings: http…
117 - Getting Unstuck During NaNoWriMo - Part 1
NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writers' Month, is well underway. By this point in week two your story might have become a little bit, well, stuck.
In these next two episodes I share tips and advice fr…