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Grant Faulkner

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Grant Faulkner is the co-founder of 100 Word Story, the co-host of the Write-minded podcast, and an executive producer on America’s Next Great Author.

He has published three books on writing: The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story; Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo; and Brave the Page, a teen writing guide.

He’s also published All the Comfort Sin Can Provide, a collection of short stories, Fissures, a collection of 100-word stories, and Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story.

His “flash novel,” something out there in the distance, a collaboration with the photographer Gail Butensky, is coming out in September 2025 with the University of New Mexico Press.

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	Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo (Novel and Creative Writing Book, National Novel Writing Month NaNoWriMo Guide) 4.09 avg rating — 658 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco by Gary Kamiya (Introduction), Beth Lisick (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Michelle Tea (Contributor) 3.82 avg rating — 570 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atrévete a escribir: Guía para jóvenes escritores que desean contar grandes historias by Rebecca Stern, Grant Faulkner (Goodreads Author), Alfonso Barguñó Viana (Translator) 4.17 avg rating — 389 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story by Grant Faulkner (Goodreads Author), Megan Giddings (Foreword) 4.12 avg rating — 121 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story.org by Grant Faulkner (Goodreads Author), Lynn Mundell (Editor), Beret Olsen (Editor) 4.04 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fissures: One Hundred 100-Word Stories 4.42 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All the Comfort Sin Can Provide 4.36 avg rating — 28 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Names of All Things really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story, Library Edition by Grant Faulkner (Goodreads Author), Paul Heitsch (narrator), Megan Giddings (contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	something out there in the distance by Grant Faulkner (Goodreads Author), Gail Butensky (Photographer) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If you put off your dreams today, you create the momentum to put the off all the way to you deathbed.”
― Grant Faulkner, Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo

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“An artist is by definition a menace to conformity.”
― Grant Faulkner, Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo

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“Failure is the breeding ground of innovation. How so, you say? Consider Thomas Edison's approach to failure: 'I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Grant Faulkner, Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo

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