Let's fix your hook! Drop your opening line and I'll help. Free resources at storytelling101.substack.com Quality answers industry pros on reddit.com/r/ubergroup Everything at theubergroup.org #writing #editor #educational ##writingcommunity

Study writing without student loans. Free resources at storytelling101.substack.com Quality answers from industry pros on reddit.com/r/ubergroup Everything at theubergroup.org #educational #editing #writingcommunity

Take a real class. That includes cheap classes from nonprofits like us! Free resources at storytelling101.substack.com Quality answers from industry pros on reddit.com/r/ubergroup Everything at theubergroup.org

1913 Marie Denizard 1st woman to stand in French presidential elections. (French women only won suffrage in 1944). Campaigner for women's rights, pacifist, 1926 incarcerated in asylum for 32 yrs for "delusions of politico-social demands" by police.d #OTD 21 May 1959 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_D...

Who's reading your drafts? Free resources at storytelling101.substack.com Quality answers from industry pros on reddit.com/r/ubergroup Everything at theubergroup.org

Write your synopsis first, please. Free resources at storytelling101.substack.com Quality answers from industry pros on reddit.com/r/ubergroup Everything at theubergroup.org

What happens on your first page? Comment below and I'll tell you if I'm hooked. Free resources at storytelling101.substack.com Quality answers from industry pros on our reddit.com/r/ubergroup Everything at theubergroup.org #writing #editing #educational

What else do you love besides novels? Movies and plays aren't "harder" to break in with. Hard, yes, but novels are equally difficult. Free resources at storytelling101.substack.com Quality answers from industry pros on reddit.com/r/ubergroup Everything at theubergroup.org #writing

Psssst… hi… c’mere for a sec… Direct preorders are open for physical copies of Family Night now :D masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...

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Why your beta readers ghost you, part one. Free resources at storytelling101.substack.com Quality answers from industry pros on reddit.com/r/ubergroup Everything at theubergroup.org #writing #editing ##educational

Somehow I completely forgot to post that I have a new story out @pictura.bsky.social that was created in the wonderful @smokelong.bsky.social workshop. This is what having kids with a looming #schoolstrike does to my brain. picturajournal.com/issue-six/ge... #flashfiction #writesky

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What does your protagonist need to survive? Free resources at storytelling101.substack.com Quality answers from industry pros on reddit.com/r/ubergroup Everything at theubergroup.org

Tell me about your USP! Free resources at storytelling101.substack.com Quality answers from industry pros on reddit.com/r/ubergroup Everything at theubergroup.org

#QuestPit #W #A #F #RF Howl's Moving Castle x The Wizard of Oz An autistic demi-girl nun and her golden retriever boyfriend track down God to demand They explain the invisible wall shoving her across the magical shifting world. Two disaster bisexuals, trapped in a sidescroller. Will they kiss??

What story structure are you using? Comment below with your pitch and chosen form and let's chat! Free resources at storytelling101.substack.com Quality answers from industry pros on reddit.com/r/ubergroup Everything at theubergroup.org

#CoverReveal 👀 Ani King's FAMILY NIGHT--a collected flash fiction collection that is by turns a lyrical celebration of queerness and an exploration of family and loss, often through a lens of magical realism--is out October 2026! @aniking.bsky.social #newrelease #flashfiction #fictioncollection

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What's something unpopular that you like anyway? Free resources at storytelling101.substack.com Quality answers from industry pros on reddit.com/r/ubergroup Everything at theubergroup.org

"She was all alone in a new place, until a strange man said he could help her." Romance novel or true crime? Always a valid question. Free resources at storytelling101.substack.com Quality answers from industry pros on reddit.com/r/ubergroup Everything at theubergroup.org

The best laundry detergent in the world will not sell well in a milk carton. That's why genre matters. Free resources like this at storytelling101.substack.com Quality answers from industry pros at reddit.com/r/ubergroup Everything at theubergroup.org #writingcommunity #writingadvice

Tell me about your bookends!

Surprised and pleased to see my little sapphic lady knights story featured in Reactor's Short Fiction Spotlight. Never expected to see my name sharing a list with Stephen Graham Jones! 💀

Let's write the story based on your life! No strings, we're a charity, and this is an improv game.

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

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It’s release day for “Eat Your Heart Out”! If you’re into toxic sapphics, medical school drama, and some light cannibalism, this might be for you!

Channel Premiere! Starts Monday 27th April at 6:30pm. THE VEIL (1958) Hosted by, and starring #BorisKarloff Originally un-broadcast this anthology series comes to #TalkingPicturesTV featuring #RobertHardy #WhitBissell #NiallMacGinnis #TorinThatcher and many more #TPTVsubtitles

Did you know the Ubergroup also coaches voice acting? Rodney was a writer first and branched into acting!

The clock is ticking! ⏰ Just 6 days to get those 100-300 words together & polished for the @freeflashfiction.bsky.social Competition Thirty-Three!

Premise Part 2: now for tragedy! Free resources: Storytelling101.substack.com Quality answers from industry pros: reddit.com/r/ubergroup Everything at theubergroup.org

Tips from Lajos Egri's "The Art Of Dramatic Writing." Free resources by The Ubergroup: Storytelling101.substack.com reddit.com/r/ubergroup Everything at theubergroup.org

Delighted to win New Irish Writing Best Short Story at the 2025 Irish Book Awards. A huge thank you to Ciaran Carty, Eoin McNamee & @irishbookawards.bsky.social

'Poems On A Journey'

May all beings be happy All beings without exception Weak or strong, omitting none Great or mighty, seen & unseen Near & far Born or yet unborn May all beings be happy Let no one deceive another Or despise anyone anywhere Or in anger wish another harm May all beings be happy

Next, ‘The Appraisal’, a weird tale of the workplace and the way it changes us. Remember, all you need is to be agile, pro-active, reactive, resilient retrained, restrained, and that dream career could be yours: thinveilpress.co.uk/the-appraisal

Woohoo! I've got a prose poem titled "blistered" accepted by redrosethorns journal! Can't wait to share this piece about mental health! 🫶💝

FlashFlood opens for submissions on 19 April till 25 April. Flashes up to 300 words. Stories will be published on NFFD. Pre 2023 previously published considered. Reserved slots for unpublished writers. For more details see our submission guidelines: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission...

Day 9: You can use neuroscience to facilitate AHA moments and fix plot holes #selfpublishing #writertips #booksky

I wrote a story about caddisfly obsession and it won a prize! 😮🪳

Delighted to have finally wormed my way into dream journal @gonelawn.bsky.social gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

I have story upcoming in the Capture This anthology coming out in May with Linton Press, and today they published my author's interview. www.lintonpress.ca/betty-stanto... #amwriting #writingcommunity #flashfiction

#lunarcodex #vagabondpress Poem archived on the 🌙 moon For future generations. youtu.be/fcn7sP8mRZg?...

ladies and gentlemen, and everyone in between after 18 months and 17,000 words we proudly present the 49th publication from the award winning food blogger: “thepoetofcuisine” “digital cicero” thepoetofcuisine.wordpress.com/2026/03/17/d...

"I'll love you in every lifetime." Is that a promise, or a threat? This is my favorite story I've ever written. I'm honored to see it (and hear it!) in Escape Pod.

Love novellas? How about two in one book? Wiz Duo Book 1 has wonderfully strange worlds created by David Gullen and Ben Wright. wizardstowerpress.co...

Let's start this week off with a list story, "The Things You'll Wish You'd Known" by Kristen Koopman . This is a story which makes the most of the term "mixed state" in many, many ways:

Excited to share Tasavvur's Spring 2026 issue. Huge shout-out to the writers, contributors, and team Tasavvur. Hope you all enjoy what we've put together.