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
116 - Critique Week Is Back! Oct 21-31
Join our critique 'week', Oct 21-31 (because wouldn't it be nice if every week had a couple of extra days to get stuff done?) and get access to the Revisions & Critique Mini Course as well as having …
115 - Slow Down
This month, as we transition from StoryADay September into the rest of our writing lives, I encourage you to slow down, turn left, and break things.
LINKS
SWAGr: https://stada.me/swagr
Opening Lines …
114 - On Promiscuity
In which I talk about when (writerly) promiscuity is good, and announce the winners of the September giveaway of Windy Lynn Harris's book, "Writing & Selling Short Stories & Personal Essays".
Bonus p…
113 - Should You Edit While You Write?
This could be a really short podcast (just me screaming "NO!"), but I decided to talk in a more constructive way about the reasons why I think it's important to write fast first drafts and save revis…
112 - Backstories & Integrity
Firstly I talk about some people who are making short and long fiction work for them: Mary Robinette Kowal, whose new novels The Calculating Stars grew out of a short story, The Lady Astronaut of Mar…
111 - The Joy of Writing (Backstories)
Writing a longer work like a novel can get a bit overwhelming. Today I encourage you to use short stories to explore areas of your novel's world that you might not have dug deeply into. This can help…
110 - Putting Systems in Place
This month I am still talking about writing for minor holidays and anniversaries. In this podcast I reveal the grand plan behind this: it's a system for focusing on particularly stories, regularly.
I…
109 - Writing For Minor Holidays
Minor holidays are a great opportunity for writers to show editors why they need to publish *this* story *now*.
Forget about the over-subscribed holidays of Valentine's and Christmas. Instead, write …
108 - June is for Revisions
This month at StoryADay we're all about revisions.
This episode takes a look at how to revise your short stories without becoming overwhelmed, and invites you to think about submitting a story to Sto…
107 - Revisions, StoryFest and SWAGr
StoryADay May is over and now we get to celebrate.
This episode talks about upcoming themes at the StoryADay blog, the Serious Writers' Accountability Group and the upcoming StoryFest showcase of all…
106 - After The Challenge
This week I share some of the prompts from week 4 of StoryADay May 2018, talk about creativity and limits, and encourage you to dive into the community at StoryADay.
Also, I talk about drug discovery…
105 - Is It Time To Quit?
The problem with doing something hard (like writing) is not that you aren't good. It's that it's hard to know how long to work before you decide that you really aren't any good.
(Hint: It's longer t…
104 - Getting Your Mojo Back
In Week 2 of StoryADay May 2018 we're working on craft-based writing prompts (character desires, conflict, structures, openings and endings). Picking up skills and putting down words.
But now that th…
103 - StoryADay May 2018 is Underway!
The first week of StoryADay May 2018 is drawing to a close. In this episode I tell you about
The webinar I did with NaNoWriMo's Young Writer's Program, Marya Brennan: http://stada.me/ywplive
The Sup…
102 - Top Three Tips For A Successful StoryADay May
In this episode I give you my top three tips for a successful month of writing an introduce the new StoryADay Superstars program: http://storyaday.org/storyaday-superstars
(membership comes with a mo…
101 - Windy Lynn Harris & Short Fiction
Apologies that the audio is a little crackly on this one, but it's worth sticking with, to hear the infectiously enthusiastic Windy Lynn Harris and me, gabbing about the joy of short fiction.
Windy L…
100 - Read LIke A Writer
This week I share some ideas on how you can read like a writer, and turn that effort into a resource that you can return to again and again.
StoryADay May 2018 starts in a few weeks. Reading short st…
099 - Jane Friedman & The Business of Being A Writer
Today I interview publishing industry expert Jane Friedman (www.janefriedman.com) whose new book The Business Of Being A Writer is billed as 'the business education you never got', for writers.
We di…
098 - Why Can't You Write That Story?
This week's podcast is a pep-talk to get you writing, even when you're having trouble getting started.
(Isn't "getting started" the hardest part some days?)
And sometimes, getting started isn't the p…
Mini Episode: Sonnet writing prompt
Today's mini episode is a writing prompt that challenges you to write a story in the form of a prose sonnet (don't worry, I explain what I mean and give you a few different styles to choose from).
It…