Motivation Monday
Motivation All Day Every Day
by Laurie McLean We began this Motivation Monday series of blog posts in early March to help writers of all levels and experience to weather the storm that was the Covid-19 pandemic and quarantine. We wanted to keep your spirits up. We wanted to share wisdom from other writers and people in publishing. We wanted…
Read MoreThe World Needs Your Story
Hello writing community. It’s been an eventful 2020, hasn’t it? I hope that you’re all staying safe and centered and grounded this week. It can be easy to feel we’ve come untethered from reality when we’re stuck at home with nothing but the Twitter feed for company. And speaking of that Twitter feed, how’s your…
Read MoreCreative Ways to Virtually Connect with Your Readers: My Virtual Test Kitchen
By Carole Bumpus March 14, 2020 was Pi Day or Pie Day. This was the first day I awakened to the fact that the world in which I lived had radically changed. Freedoms I took for granted were coming to a halt or had been heavily curtailed. Planned out-of-the-country travel had been placed on temporary…
Read MoreCapture Magic Moments in Your Writing
by Louise Nayer During the pandemic it can be hard to focus on magical moments in your life. Often, however, those moments come when things are hard. For a moment, you turn a switch in your brain and see things differently. My father, who was badly burned, came to pick my sister and me up…
Read MoreSentence Starts – Journaling for Insight and Solutions
Monday Motivation By B. Lynn Goodwin Since our bodies are confined but our minds are not, I’d like to share these sentence starts with you in case you could use a writing nudge as we shelter in place. I’ve been creating these writing prompts since 2004, then writing about them with my free-writing group. I’ve…
Read MoreAn Update from the World of Publishing (from an agent’s POV)
By Laurie McLean, Fuse Literary Co-founder and SFWC Director It’s mid-April as I write this, and the world has entered the second stage of this horrific pandemic. Most of us are staying at home, only going out for essentials like groceries and gas. Writers are either actively writing or at least keeping notes on their…
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