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
014 - The Challenge - Day 05 - Writing Prompt
Today's prompt encourages you to write a story about a character who shares some similarities with you.
013 - The Challenge - Day 04 - Writing Prompt
Continuing this week's theme of 'Limits', today I'm limiting you to a first-person point-of-view story.
012 - The Challenge Day 03 - Writing Prompt
Today you're going to write a story in 100 words
011 - The Challenge - Day 02 - Writing Prompt
This is a very silly prompt, but it always gets people writing!
010 - The Challenge - Week 1, Day 1
You're doing it! Good for you!
Today's episode is a pep talk and your first writing prompt. This week's theme is "Limits"
You can leave a comment about today's story here: http://storyaday.org/pr…
009 - Tips For A Successful Month of Writing
Julie shares her best tips from 6 years of Extreme Writing Challenges, for getting your writing done this month. Don't turn off before the last tip...it's the best!
Music credit: Alan McPike standa…
008 - How To Write A StoryADay for a Month - The StADa Way
Wondering how it's possible to write a story a day for a month? 6 years' worth of FAQs, condensed into one little podcast!
007 - How Do You Write A StoryADay For A Month?
It sounds like a crazy idea: trying to write a story a day every day for a month, and yet thousands of people have taken on this task every May since 2010. How? Why?
Listen and find out what your wri…
006 - Yes, You Should Write Your Stories!
In which I rant about the "professionalization" of entertainment and encourage you to rail against it.
005 - Giving Yourself Permission Write
In this episode I talk about the many, many ways we are wrong when we tell ourselves we simply can't write!
004 - How To Become A Highly Successful Writer
Make sure that your definition of 'success' for your writing is really YOUR definition of writing success. Don't allow anyone else to tell you what success looks like!
Also covering: fifth grade fail…
003 - More Ways To Log Your Writing And Motivate Yourself
Last episode, we talked about logging your words, to motivate yourself to write more. This episode we look at other ways to log your progress for those times (e.g. when you're editing a big project) …
002 - Use Word Count Logging To Motivate You To Write More
Last year I wrote 100,000 words of fiction (that's on top of all the non-fiction writing, mothering, wife-ing and general living I got done).
In this episode I show you how to use word count logging …
001 - Don't Let Guilt & Shame Derail Your Writing
Not living up to your writing resolutions? Learn how to harness guilt, dismiss shame, and focus on the things that will help you be more productive and creative.