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		<title>What Now?!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today is a particularly important day…you’ve spent the past month focusing on your writing and your life as a writer.&#160; I couldn’t be more proud of you! I encourage you to download the&#160;post-challenge worksheet&#160;attached to this page and either print it out or simply use the question and answer them in your journal.&#160; WRITE IT &#8230; <a href="https://storyaday.org/what-now/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "What Now?!"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Day 31 &#124; Best Day Ever by Julie Duffy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Prompt You made it! You&#8217;re hear at the end of the month, still showing up, still writing. Whether you wrote one story or thirty-one, congratulations. This is a pretty good day. Today I want you to write a story about someone&#8217;s best day ever.You are, of course, free to use that title ironically (and &#8230; <a href="https://storyaday.org/2026-day-31/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Day 31 &#124; Best Day Ever by Julie Duffy"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Day 30 &#124; When The Robots Came&#8230; by Julie Duffy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Prompt At this point, it&#8217;s almost impossible you haven&#8217;t encountered a piece of software that tried to convince you to use it&#8217;s new AI features. Today you&#8217;re going to write a story that delves into the relationship between humans and technological pals&#8230;and this stuff is going to seem a lot less sci-fi than it &#8230; <a href="https://storyaday.org/2026-day-30/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Day 30 &#124; When The Robots Came&#8230; by Julie Duffy"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Day 29 &#124; Setting As Character by Julie Duffy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Prompt if you&#8217;re the kind of writer who mostly writers dialogue, or has been accused of writing stories that seem like they&#8217;re set on a blank white stage, this prompt is one that&#8217;s going to challenge you. Write a story where the setting features almost as much as a character. Give us sensation. Give &#8230; <a href="https://storyaday.org/2026-day-29/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Day 29 &#124; Setting As Character by Julie Duffy"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Day 28 &#124; Tell It Like It Is by Julie Duffy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Prompt Today I want you to mine your memory for a conversation that you will never forget&#8230;and give it to (at least) two different characters. Tell as much of that story as you can in dialogue, without much narrative explanation. Julie Duffy Julie Duffy is a writer and the host of StoryADay. Those who &#8230; <a href="https://storyaday.org/2026-day-28/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Day 28 &#124; Tell It Like It Is by Julie Duffy"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Day 27 &#124; The Mystery of Pain by Neha Mediratta</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Prompt &#8220;It hurts,&#8221; she points yet again to her foot. Her heel. The very back of her heel to be precise. &#8220;Why does it hurt?&#8221; I&#8217;m a doctor who has run every test I know, prescribed every exercise I know. Yet the pain persists. I ask her again, hoping for a different answer, &#8220;Why &#8230; <a href="https://storyaday.org/2026-day-27/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Day 27 &#124; The Mystery of Pain by Neha Mediratta"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Day 26 &#124; Sing It! by Julie Duffy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Prompt Today you&#8217;re going to write a story inspired by a song. Pick a song you have some emotional connection to. Pull up the lyrics or look at the album art, and think about what kind of story you could tell around it. Julie Duffy Julie Duffy is a writer and the host of &#8230; <a href="https://storyaday.org/2026-day-26/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Day 26 &#124; Sing It! by Julie Duffy"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Day 25 &#124;  by Fan Fic In Forty</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Prompt Today I want you to write a story in 40 minutes. To help with that, we’re going to take away some of the invention you would otherwise have to do, by writing fan-fiction. Choose a story, character or world invented by someone else, take a couple of their characters and mix things up. &#8230; <a href="https://storyaday.org/2026-day-25/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Day 25 &#124;  by Fan Fic In Forty"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Day 24 &#124;  by A Toy&#8217;s Tale</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Prompt Write a story that revolves around an heirloom toy. This might be a single character&#8217;s reminiscence of a beloved toy; a character&#8217;s discovery of an heirloom toy that changes everything; or perhaps you want to follow your heirloom toy through several &#8216;lifetimes&#8217; in a series of short flash or micro-fiction pieces. This can &#8230; <a href="https://storyaday.org/2026-day-24/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Day 24 &#124;  by A Toy&#8217;s Tale"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Day 23 &#124; Beyond Sound and Vision by Elizabeth Twist</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie Duffy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Prompt Where film and television can give us rich soundscapes and nuanced visuals, only the written word allows us to access the whole range of human senses. The challenge: write a story that uses touch, smell, and/or taste, and avoids visual and audio descriptions. Delve into some of the other senses if you wish: &#8230; <a href="https://storyaday.org/2026-day-23/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Day 23 &#124; Beyond Sound and Vision by Elizabeth Twist"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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