What I Learned From Writing A Short Story EVERY DAY

Julie Duffy has hosted a short story writing challenge every May since 2010. The premise is to write a complete story every day in May and September. They do not have to be long, but it needs to be finished. You can use the daily prompt provided by Julie or not. You can make up your own schedule and chose days to write or not.

Here are 15 Learnings from this year's challenge:

1. If you are going to write using characters from your NANOWRIMO novel make sure you REREAD part of your novel. It makes it a lot easier which should have been obvious to me. I had a little too much time between trying to write with my characters and the last time I touched the novel. My brain does like connections I found. If I allowed my subconscious to lead the way certain stories produced are going to fit nicely into my manuscript.
2. My Bradbury Trio reading challenge has changed the way I write. I can tell a difference in the way I fit story puzzle pieces together the more varied input I read.
3. I like to have conversations about writing which is not new learning, but the depth of the conversation was different. I like the action of a small group of people talking about writing practice and anything parallel to the writing life. I have year long relationships with many of the writers in the community which…