In Today’s Journal
* Memorial Day
* The Bradbury Challenge Report
* Freebies
* Of Interest
Memorial Day
Wishing you all an enjoyable and thoughtful Memorial Day.
The Bradbury Challenge Report
Participating in any challenge is a great way to have fun and grow as a writer.
The requirement is to write at least one short story per week, then let me know the title, word count, and genre per the format below. During the past week, the following writers wrote these new stories:
- Erin Donoho “A Letter From an Old Friend” 1300 historical coming-of-age
- Balázs Jámbor “AI WAR” 3400 Sci-fi
- Vanessa V. Kilmer “Memorial Daze” 3108 Speculative
- Christopher Ridge “She’s the One” horror 1674
- Christopher Ridge “Not a Good Day” horror 1363
- Christopher Ridge “No Return Policy” Sci-Fi 832
- Christopher Ridge “Dogs” horror 2124
- Christopher Ridge “Shooter” horror 1569
- Christopher Ridge “Secret” noir 798
- Christopher Ridge “killers” horror 2245
- KC Riggs “The Singer” 2331 General Fiction
- Dave Taylor “The Pacific Flyer ” 2,838 Paranormal
- Glynn Young “The Surgeon” 2673 General
Congratulations to all of these writers.
Freebies
Freebies for everyone, including new subscribers
- The TNDJ archives for 2021-2024 contain most of what I’ve posted about fiction writing over the past decade. To get them free in searchable PDF format, email me.
- And of course, you can peruse the 2025-2026 archives by scrolling back either at Substack or at the Journal website.
- Also be sure to visit the Journal website and and my author site to check out all the freebies and resources listed there.
- Finally, if you want to get any of my own fiction or nonfiction at a discount, I recommend you check out my online discount store and save a buck.
I’ll be back tomorrow with Chapter 10, the final installment of Author Intrusion: A Writerly Sin | How Fiction Writers Kill Their Own Work.
In the meantime, harkening back to Chapter 4 of that book about human parts not having human traits, I recommend reading this short-short story by Philip K. Dick: “The Eyes Have It”. Thanks to my friend JGV for alerting me to this excellent story.