Cheryl King Writes Things
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“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!
Winter Flash Fiction Battle
I submitted an alien story.
Results: “The Fall of the House of Debra,” about a rhyming pet alien named Faux Poe, did not make it to the finals.
I wrote a 2,400-word short story taking place on a snow day.
Results: Mid-April.
3 rounds, 3 micro stories
This was fast and furious.
Results: None of my stories made it to the leaderboard.
I submitted something speculative for their anti-prompt of (don’t) write what you know.
Results: Ahhh, no long list for me.
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:
53-word story challenges every month, free to enter.
“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.