Tag: 30 stories in 30 days

• 30 Short Stories in 30 Days: The List

  Last year, for the month of January, I read a short story every day. I set this challenge for myself as a concrete goal that would expose me to many authors, genres, and writing styles in a short time and collectively improve my own writing. And it did: After each story I’d reflect on what […]

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  Julie Israel

  7 January, 2014

  Reading, short story, Writing

  30 day challenge, 30 stories in 30 days, fiction, short stories, writers

• 30 Stories, Day 30: The Little Match Girl

   GOOOOOAL! It’s the last day of my 30 day reading challenge (one short story a day in efforts to learn from the masters) and I celebrate with one that I’ve been meaning to read for a very long time now—ever since someone (I believe it was the talented Daniela?) mentioned it was one of her […]

  Julie Israel

  30 January, 2013

  Reading, short story, Writing

  30 stories in 30 days, fiction, fiction more powerful than nonfiction, Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match Girl, writers, Writing

• 30 Stories, Day 8: Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy

  Now I can finally say I’ve read some Tolstoy. Wahoo! …Just War & Peace left to knock out…no big… Here is day 8 of my whirlwind bedtime adventure to read 30 short stories in 30 days (…and hope that some of it will rub off in my own writing): “Three Questions” by Leo Tolstoy “It […]

  Julie Israel

  8 January, 2013

  Reading, short story, Writing

  30 short stories, 30 stories in 30 days, fable, fiction, Leo Tolstoy, parable, Three Questions, writers, Writing