Cheryl King Writes Things
My grown-up coloring book set is growing! They each feature 50 unique designs created for teachers, dyslexics, writers, book lovers, introverts, menopausal women, and boy moms. Get ready to read, color, and laugh. All seven are 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. Behind schedule on this one too.
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.
Other Projects
NYCMidnight 100-Word Challenge:
Waiting for the next challenge … maybe. This contest has gotten too pricey.
This has become my favorite contest to do.
They now offer professionally judged battles as well as peer-judged battles.
This is a fast and furious tournament with three rounds of short-form stories.
Furious Fiction:
500-word challenges on the first Friday of every month, and it’s free to enter.
Press 53:
Monthly 53-word story contest that is 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.