What is a Rock Star Writer?
You’re a Rock Star Writer if you complete the daily challenges, post what you write in response to each day’s lesson, and engage with your fellow members for all three days of the Free Three-Day Writing Challenge. That’s it!
We’re providing a sweet incentive for you to stay focused and committed to writing this week. Read on to learn what Rock Star Writers can earn and how to qualify.
What can Rock Star Writers earn?
All qualifying Rock Star Writers earn a ticket to a group coaching session with Patricia.
During this ninety-minute event, Patricia and other Rock Stars focus on three randomly selected Rock Star Writer stories in a live review and feedback session.
That’s right–three lucky participants have the opportunity for their work to be reviewed, highlighting what works in the story and what could be improved.
What writer doesn’t want practical feedback to refine their work?
How to qualify as a Rock Star Writer
How do you earn this fantastic bonus?
Post something you’ve written in response to the daily lesson all three days in the comments section of the daily lesson page.
Submit your third entry no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on Sunday, May 21, 2023.
We’ll notify all qualified participants within forty-eight (48) hours and provide an access link to the group coaching experience.
Writing Submissions for the Coaching Session Review
- You may submit a story you wrote during the challenge (750 words maximum) or some other story for the chance to receive a live review of it. Submissions over the word count will not be considered for review.
- Three submissions will be chosen at random for feedback during the coaching session.
- Post your writing submission in the comments section below.
- Deadline to post: Wednesday, May 24 at 11:59 p.m. ET
- The three selected submissions will be posted together on this page (below) by Thursday, May 25 for your review prior to the session. All participants are invited to revisit this page, read the selected stories, and provide helpful and supportive feedback to the authors during the coaching event.
- Note: You are not required to submit a writing piece in order to participate in this event, but you’ll benefit if you do!
Congratulations to these challenge members who earned Rock Star Writer status:
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- David Godin
- Diane Field
- Etya Krichmar
- Geri Strand
- Holly Martinez
- Idalia Martinez
- Jackie Raymond
- Judy Fink
- Julie Folkerts
- Linda Peterson
- Lisa Marie Webb
- Liz Brown
- Lorna Deane
- Monique Cobbs
- Nancy Archibald
- Norma Beasley
- Orah Zamir
- Peggy Cariddi
- Steven Weisberg
Congratulations to our Rock Star Writers whose stories were selected for review. Well done!
David Goden
Mrs. Landers Grocery (Word)
Mrs. Landers Grocery (PDF)
Nancy Archibald
At Our Mercy (Word)
At Our Mercy (PDF)
Geri Strand
The Flood (Word)
The Flood (PDF)
Rock Star Writers Group Coaching Session with Patricia
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
6:00 p.m. ET
via Zoom
Qualified participants will be sent Zoom access information via email.
Here is my story from Day One of the Challenge.
Here is my story from theThree-Day Writing Challenge.
Rock Star Entry. One from the challenge. I added a few pictures to make the story real.
Wonderful story. I also struggled with the word limit. It took me three tries to get to 750 words. Part of the problem is my inexperience as a writer, not having a feel for the right mix of description and action. I’m sure you felt much of the same frustration, trying to condense it all into a few pages.
When you were talking about Yellowstone I remembered when I’d last been there. It was on fire and the lodge parking lot was full of fire trucks.
What is the story about? This story is about a flood in the Beartooth Mountains of Wyoming and Montana in 2022. It had snowed heavily in April and May. The June rain added to the amount of water in the rivers. You were used to flooding, but this year even though they had made precautions of driving vehicles across the bridge, they found the bridge was washed out as well. The story also describes how you managed the horses. What did the Author do well? I liked how you started with the snow in April and added to it until… Read more »
Rock Star Writers Entry
My Rock Star submission. It’s a new version of one Patricia commented on in the last challenge – she thought I had two stories in it then. I hope this is only one! sorry, I can’t figure out how to attach… Betty Lou Born three weeks after Pearl Harbor, I grew up in a small town in Maine, a WASPy town in the WASPiest of states. Named Elizabeth Louise, for the first few years of my life, I was called Betty Lou. That small-town, country-song name was a perfect metaphor for a narrow, plain-vanilla way of life that, along with… Read more »
My Rock Star Story is attached.
Here is my Rock Star Submission.
Attempt #2
Assertiveness
Game on….
My 3rd piece from the challenge.
Title: Kindred Spirits
749 words…..
Love your style, Steven. You paint pictures, you show feeling and evoke nostalgia.
masterfully written. Your colorful language allowed me to see through your eyes
This is a revised version of my story Ocean that I posted earlier in the Challenge. Want help.
The Rainbow of the Vision
Love the third person perspective of your educational achievement.
My story entry.
A Foiled Camping Trip
My Story. Mrs. Landers Grocery
What is the story about? This story is about memories of your family’s experience with a grocery store and the woman who owned it. What did the author do well? You provided a great description of the store, Mrs. Landers, the penny candy. I liked the scene where you found a dime and went to the store for a surprise package. I could see you as a little boy in that store, anticipating what candy you were going to receive from Lucille. What could the author do to improve the piece? This is just a suggestion. Patricia went over the… Read more »
Quite the flashback, David. I could feel the youthful exhuberance and wistful remembrance of a time long ago.
You don’t fail to please. Sweet success!
I wish I’d written this story. I grew up next to a store such as this and had the same experience with the
candy counter and the cigarettes. You described the experience so well! Good job!
This is my story from the challenge day one
Judy that sounds like quite a harrowing experience, but what a gift that your son’s condition was discovered before it erupted into something even worse.
WHAT A STORY!
This is my first story.
What adventures you had as a nurse practitioner in Alaska!