WRITING ON THE DAILY
SINCE 1/1/11
Year 15 of a daily writing project that requires an attention span longer than 15-seconds. You up for the challenge of following along?
ABOUT MY DAILY WRITING
I have written something unique every single day since January 1, 2011. I started this project six years after completing my MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College because I noticed I wasn't making enough time to work on my first true love: the written word. To keep my creativity sharp and active, I made my first-ever New Year's Resolution to write every day for one year and I have re-upped this promise to myself annually ever since. I truly love my craft and can't imagine not taking the time to write every day. I am so thankful for the sparking of this idea at the end of 2010 and am humbled and honored by all of you who have supported, urged, and inspired my work along the way.
ABOUT THE 2025 BLOG
The theme in 2025 is "No One Reads Anymore," inspired by what I am seeing around me -- a true decline in actual curiosity, especially when it comes to knowing and understanding ourselves. Attentions spans have been reduced to 15-second videos made by strangers served to us in an algorithm that claims it knows us better than anyone. I call bullshit on that -- and I encourage you to do the same. Every day, I sit down to write and I learn something about myself or what I think about both my internal and external world that so often surprises me. Having this dail writing practice teaches me -- and what I have learned has helped me evolve. No algorithm can outshine what I self-discover. In 2025, I'll continue in this pursuit to create art in the way I love to do so -- who knows what I will learn next. I am excited to find out.
TO SUBSCRIBE
Email me at [email protected] to get started. While some posts will be free, most will be back behind ye olde paywall: $5 for individual months, $60 for the whole year. Audio versions of posts may be available upon request.
PLEASE NOTE: If payment creates a financial burden for you but you’re interested in following along, please email me at [email protected] — I never want money to create an unsurpassable barrier.
Donations always appreciated: Venmo @sarahwolfstar.
ARCHIVE of PAST BLOG PROJECTS
* Contact me about accessing past projects - donations welcome *
2024 - Come to Me in 2024. This blog was about focusing in, manifesting, and being fearless about asking the Universe to support me.
2023 - The Daily Writing Rewind. This 13th year of daily writing paid homage to the previous 12 blog themes, each one being featured for a month of the year.
2022 - Write for Me. This year's daily writing was private access to me-only, with selected posts made available to subscribers.
2021 - Anything Goes. This year's project opened up the comments section for audience feedback as inspiration.
2020 - I Spy. This blog got its inspiration from photographs. Mostly. Audio versions of each post from July-December.
2019 - Today's Special. This blog was all me and focused on what was special to me each day.
2018 - What's It Called. Here, I asked friends to write titles that I would use to inspire each day's post.
2017 - Inspired. This project initially was to be propelled by what inspired all of you, but I went rogue and spent the year writing about what inspired me. The writing from this project is some of my personal career favorite.
2016 - ABC's. Each day had a featured letter for participants to use to send me words that started with that letter. While many of these posts turned out great, the poetry yielded by this premise is some of my best.
2015 - Sing-Along. Friends gave me songs they liked and I used that music to inspire my daily writing. Check out the Spotify playlist of every song used.
2014 - The Untitled Blog. Written choose-your-own-adventure-style, this project defied gravity, had a fiercely loyal readership who all voted daily on what would happen next, and the end result was an actual novel. I have no idea how I pulled off this magic trick, but I am immensely proud of this piece of fiction, now available in a two-part novel called A Somerville Love Story.
2013 - Triple Play. Folks gave me any three things they wanted and I incorporated them into a piece of writing.
2012 - With a Little Help From My Friends. This all-fiction blog had friends writing the first lines of short stories and me writing the rest. I selected my 50 favorites from this project and compiled them into a a collection called Sobriety (And 49 Other Fine Stories).
2011 - Three Hundred Sixty-Five for Twenty-Eleven. The "OG" blog. This one was all me and had no broader theme than write every day.
2023 - The Daily Writing Rewind. This 13th year of daily writing paid homage to the previous 12 blog themes, each one being featured for a month of the year.
2022 - Write for Me. This year's daily writing was private access to me-only, with selected posts made available to subscribers.
2021 - Anything Goes. This year's project opened up the comments section for audience feedback as inspiration.
2020 - I Spy. This blog got its inspiration from photographs. Mostly. Audio versions of each post from July-December.
2019 - Today's Special. This blog was all me and focused on what was special to me each day.
2018 - What's It Called. Here, I asked friends to write titles that I would use to inspire each day's post.
2017 - Inspired. This project initially was to be propelled by what inspired all of you, but I went rogue and spent the year writing about what inspired me. The writing from this project is some of my personal career favorite.
2016 - ABC's. Each day had a featured letter for participants to use to send me words that started with that letter. While many of these posts turned out great, the poetry yielded by this premise is some of my best.
2015 - Sing-Along. Friends gave me songs they liked and I used that music to inspire my daily writing. Check out the Spotify playlist of every song used.
2014 - The Untitled Blog. Written choose-your-own-adventure-style, this project defied gravity, had a fiercely loyal readership who all voted daily on what would happen next, and the end result was an actual novel. I have no idea how I pulled off this magic trick, but I am immensely proud of this piece of fiction, now available in a two-part novel called A Somerville Love Story.
2013 - Triple Play. Folks gave me any three things they wanted and I incorporated them into a piece of writing.
2012 - With a Little Help From My Friends. This all-fiction blog had friends writing the first lines of short stories and me writing the rest. I selected my 50 favorites from this project and compiled them into a a collection called Sobriety (And 49 Other Fine Stories).
2011 - Three Hundred Sixty-Five for Twenty-Eleven. The "OG" blog. This one was all me and had no broader theme than write every day.