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
079 - A Non-Traditional Love Story - a writing prompt
Today I encourage you to write a non-traditional love story for the 27th day of StoryADay May 2017
The prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170527/
078 - Letters - a writing prompt for May 26, 2017
Today's #writingprompt is one of my faves: write a story in letter form.
The Prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170526-letters
077 - Sonnet - a writing prompt
Today's #writingprompt for StoryADay May is to write a prose sonnet: 14 sentences long.
The Prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170525-sonnet
076 - Hidden Messages, a writing prompt
Today I'm prompting you to write a story within a story. To find out how, check out the blog post below
The Prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170524-hidden-message/
075 - Lists: a short story writing prompt
Today we're back to writing short story forms, after our week of working on support for the novelists among us.
The Prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170523-list/
074 - Sensuous Setting - a writing prompt
Today we tell a story focusing on the setting (and your five senses)
The Prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170522-setting
073 - World Building A Society - writing prompt
Today we look at less tangible aspects of the world you're building, and what makes them the way they are.
The prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170521-society
072 - Concrete World Building - a writing prompt
Continuing our week of short story writing, for novelists, today we look at what aspects of your world might need better examined.
The Prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170520-concrete
071 - Secondary Meeting - a writing prompt
Today we step back into the past, to when your protagonist met an important supporting character
The prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170519-secondary
070 - A Refusal - a writing prompt
Today we ask: what if the protagonist simply isn't up to the job...
The Prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170518-no
068 - The Protagonist's Journal - a writing prompt
Today we continue diving deeply into your protagonist's past with a story that takes place just before the story you really want to tell; or with a series of journal entries from the same time period…
067 - Turning point, a writing prompt
Today kicks off a week of prompts that are aimed at helping novelists spend part of this month deepening their understanding of a work in progress or a work-to-be. Of course, the prompts can all be u…
066 - Writing Prompt - A Second Look
Today's writing prompt encourages you to take a second look at an earlier story.
The prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170515-second-look/
064 - A writing prompt from Tony Conway
In today's prompt, writer Tony Conaway invites you to write about a misapprehension.
The Prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170513-tony
More about Tony: http://wayneaconaway.blogspot.com/
063 - A Writing prompt from Elise Holland
Today's prompt is all about poetry. Or theft. Or possibly both...
The Prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170512-elise/
More about Elise: 2 Elizabeths
062 - A writing prompt from Bea at The Busy Muse
In today's prompt Bea from The Busy Muse encourages us to take a second look at our first idea.
The Prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170516-bea/
Bea's site: The Busy Muse
061 - A Writing Prompt from Sarah Cain
Today's writing prompt involves a chance encounter.
The Prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170510-sarah/
Sarah's Books: http://amzn.to/2pir5nN
060 - A writing prompt from Charlotte Rains Dixon
Today's prompt from Charlotte Rains Dixon is very, very silly. And sometimes that is exactly what we need...
The Prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170509-charlotte
Charlotte's page: http://www.words…
059 - A writing prompt from Marta Pelrine-Bacon
Today Marta Pelrine-Bacon encourages us to get a bit surprising in our writing.
The Prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170508-marta
Marta's novel: http://amzn.to/2pM1Xm7
058 - A writing prompt from Stuart Horwitz
A reflective prompt for Sunday, from writer and developmental editor Stuart Horwitz.
The Prompt: http://storyaday.org/20170507-stuart
Stuart's books: http://amzn.to/2q55Llr