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
036 - The Challenge - Day 26 - Writing Prompt
Today's prompt encourages you to think about stirring up some emotions in your readers.
035 - The Challenge - 25 - Writing Prompt
Today's writing prompt is all about changing perspective. Most of us have a particular POV we like to write in. Today, we try something completely different.
034 - The Challenge - Day 24 - Writing Prompt
Today we’re going to take a deeper look at genre and the expectations readers have, based on that genre...
033 - The Challenge - Day 23 - writing prompt
Quick: grab a book from your bookshelf, and look at the first page. Can you tell what kind of book it's going to be just from the tone of that page? Does it match your expectations?
Today you'll wri…
032 - The Challenge - Day 22 - writing prompt
With four weeks of writing under your belt, you will have learned a thing or two about your strengths as a writer. This week we use what you've learned and build on it.
Today's focus: Finding Your Vo…
031 - The Challenge - Day 21 - writing prompt
I don't often give you a traditional 'story starter' kind of prompt, but today that's exactly what I'm doing. I'm really curious to see what everyone does with this one!
030 - The Challenge - Day 20 - writing prompt
Today you're going to write fan fiction for a show/book/universe you know and love.
029 - The Challenge - Day 19 - Writing prompt
This is one of my favorite writing prompts of all time - because you don't have to worry too much about coming up with a plot, just messing with one.
For more resources take a look at the blog pos…
028 - The Challenge - Day 18 - writing prompt
Today you're going to tell the story of a painting (literally or otherwise). I have some suggestions for you, and, if you want to find the original blog post, with links to good sources of art, go he…
027 - The Challenge - Day 17 - Writing Prompt
Today's prompt is to write a story based on a news headline. The caveat, of course, being that fiction, unlike real life, has to make sense!
026 - The Challenge - Day 16
Today's Rescue Week prompt is to write a story that would fit on Twitter: 140 characters only! It's not as easy as you think...
025 - The Challenge - Day 15 - Week Three
You did it! You've made it to week three! Congratulations. And don't worry if things are getting harder this week. This is your RESCUE WEEK, full of prompts exclusively designed to help you over the …
024 - The Challenge - Day 14
Protagonists and Antagonists aren't the only characters to turn up in your stories. Today we take a look at the sidekick's role.
023 - The Challenge - Day 13 - Writing Prompt
Today's prompt uses the antagonist to show what the protagonist could be if only they were a little bit worse/braver/less moral.
022 - The Challenge - Day 12 - writing prompt
Today we're concentrating on character. You love your main character...just don't let them be too perfect!
020 - The Challenge - Day 10 - Writing Prompt
Today I talk about the third of the short story structures I'm encouraging you to try out: This time the big moment comes right up front...BOOM!
018 - The Challenge - Day 09 - Writing Prompt
Today I encourage you to try out the Ugly Duckling story structure: the big moment comes in the middle of the story and is balanced by events on either side...
017 - The Challenge - Day 08 - Writing Prompt
A welcome to week two of the challenge, where we take a serious look at the Elements of Story. On this first day we look at what I call the "Cinderella Story Structure". It's a skeleton you can hang …
016 - The Challenge - Day 07 - Writing Prompt
Today you'll write a story mostly or completely in dialogue.
015 - The Challenge - Day 06 - Writing Prompt
Today, I challenge you to write a story about a character as unlike yourself as you can imagine. With they be sympathetic? Will they be evil? What can you do with this prompt?