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.
You can read about it here.
Other Projects
NYCMidnight:
Flash Fiction Challenge
Round 1: I had to write a 1,000-word political satire taking place in a retirement home
and including the object a coupon. Y’all, this one was so much fun to write!
Results: My story, “Woke Women of Wickisham Way,” got 6th place, which is a great showing.
Round 2: I had to write a 1,000-word ghost story taking place in a berry patch and including the object a shawl.
Results: My story, “The Spirits Here,” got 6th place, giving me enough points to advance to the next round!
Round 3: I wrote a 1,000-word action/adventure taking place on a polluted river and including the object chewing tobacco.
Results: My story was not in the top 3.
500-Word Micro Challenge
Round 1: I finally got historical fiction as my genre, and I went back to 1800s Hawaii.
Results: No love for this story.
Fall Short Story Battle
I submitted a cozy fantasy that I had so much fun writing.
Results: End of November
So excited about this one! I wrote a 3,000-word drama that I can’t wait to share.
Results: My story didn’t place, but I will revise and submit elsewhere.
150-word Contest
I had to write in the “weird fiction” realm, which I’ve never done before.
Results: My story didn’t place, but you can read it here.
Furious Fiction:
500-word challenges on the first Friday of every month, and it’s free to enter.
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.