Cheryl King Writes Things
My new coloring books feature 50 unique designs created for teachers, dyslexics, writers, book lovers, and introverts. They are all available on Amazon, or from right here on my website (in the Books section).
“I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.” — Ray Bradbury
My Works in Progress
Middle Grade Fiction
This was a story I started writing about 20 years ago after being inspired by the first Harry Potter. Then I hit a wall made solidly of writer’s block. Now that I’m revisiting it so many years later, it could use some updating.
Nonfiction
I am working on a book for reading teachers that will contain charts and forms for all things progress monitoring and tracking reading data. Hopefully a very useful resource for reading specialists, interventionists, dyslexia specialists, and teachers.
YA/
Dystopian Fiction
I’m brainstorming and outlining for a new project! It’s kind of dystopian/time travel, and I’m so excited about it that I’ve decided to draft at least 50,000 500 words of it during the month of November for NaNoWriMo23. Obvs, I’m behind schedule.
You can read about it here.
Other Projects
NYCMidnight 100-Word Challenge:
I submitted a 100-word drama about validation.
Results: Around May 12
Heart Flash Fiction Battle
I submitted a comedy — not an easy task.
Results: My story, “That Time We Victimized Sir Jamison Lange DuBois,” made it to the Top 4!
Wonder Flash Fiction Battle
I submitted a fantasy story for this all-pro-judged contest.
Results: June 15
Spring Micro-Fiction Battle
I submitted a 500-word “small-town secrets” story.
Results: June 8
I wrote a 2,400-word short story taking place on a snow day.
Results: Not a winner
3 rounds, 3 micro stories
This fast and furious writing tournament begins later this month.
I submitted a 500-word story featuring the word “seal,” the action of “wiping out,”
and breaking the writing rule “kill your darlings.”
Results: Early June?
Furious Fiction:
500-word challenges on the first Friday of every month, and it’s free to enter.
I have yet to make their longlist, but I shall keep trying.
Press 53:
I entered this month’s contest with a story about a promise.
“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.”
Virginia Woolf
My first stab at writing a "bizarro fiction" story.