August Stories
Lazy summer days create the perfect opportunities to write cool, refreshing stories and share them with us.
By the third Tuesday of the month at 11:59 p.m. ET, post your story in the comments section below. You must include a message in the comments box for the upload to work.
Your story should:
- be no more than 1,250 words
- be formatted using a twelve-point font in Times New Roman, Cambria, Calisto, or other fonts with serifs.
- be double-spaced
- include page numbers
The following day, return to this page to learn who your feedback partners are, download your group’s stories, and begin reviewing their stories.
If you miss the deadline to upload a story and register for Feedback Group, you will not be assigned to a group. However, you can still attend and bring your story to the feedback session, read it aloud, and receive verbal feedback. You will be placed in a group with other “walk-in” attendees.
This is also a place where all Life Writers can come to enjoy fellow members’ stories. Then, if you care to, leave the authors a note of encouragement.
This is a story I wrote a couple years ago but finally edited. My gardening, twenty stories upward is not charming butterflies, but it keeps me charmed. Enjoy
Here’s my submission…Cup or cone. All feedback welcome on my draft. Thank you.
Lisa Marie, another cute story of you and your mother grown up AND in another country. What fun that must have been. Would love to read other stories of her stay. LOLJackieR
Oh, so sweet, to be able to treat your mother and to look forward to one more gelato every day. I like the way you added the Italian language into your story and your mother’s pleasure.
Here is my story that began with a feedback group prompt.
I liked this story and hearing the meanings of Lorna. Those descriptions fit you well! Graceful and resilient and more.
Thank you for reading and for your kind comments, Kit. Thought it would make a nice fun story.
Hey my dear Lorna, Loved the history of your name, another wonderful account. Maybe I’ll get back to editing mine, a better attempt at Show no Tell edit. LOLJackieR
Thanks for your kind comments, Jackie. You will get there. Where there is a will,
you’ll always find a way.
Lorna, thank you for sharing your name story. I understand the thoughts and feelings in dealing with your name. I have twenty-six letters in my birth name, and I could never fit it on the line.