Goals and Hopes

The IWSG Wants to Know if You Have Regrets

2026-08-05
SE White
Goals and Hopes, Insecure Writer's Support Group Post, My Books, Writing Process

It’s August 5th and that means IWSG day! So happy insecurity bashing day to you all, and if you’d like to give the group a follow yourself you can find them here. Our lovely co-hosts for this month are Shannon Lawrence, Diedre Knight, Liza, and Pat Garcia!  And the (optional) question to spark the conversations this month: As a writer/author what is something you regret? Or something that you wish you’d done differently in your writing process? Chaos. This question is…

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The IWSG and Website Woes

2025-12-03
SE White
Goals and Hopes, Insecure Writer's Support Group Post

It’s IWSG Wednesday and it turns out Wednesday’s child is definitely full of woe because my website was down today. I got it running off of a backup, as you can probably tell because the website is in your eye-holes right now. But I wasn’t in time to make the posting of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group for December. If you, like me, depend upon this group and rely on the support you can always sign up for it yourself…

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The Social Media Beast Requires Regular Feeding: an IWSG Post

2025-09-03
SE White
Goals and Hopes, Insecure Writer's Support Group Post, My Books, Recommendations, Silliness

It’s the first Wednesday of September, that blessed time of the -BER months when things are getting cooler, leaves are beginning to think of their change, and the mosquitos are almost back in the hell from whence they sprang. Let us celebrate together by posting for the IWSG! If you’d like to join the group, the sign up form can be found here.  This glorious September, our co-hosts are Kim Lajevardi, Natalie Aguirre, Nancy Gideon, and Diedre Knight. Tell them thank you by stopping…

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In my defense . . . I was traveling internationally

2024-10-01
SE White
Goals and Hopes, Silliness, Top 10 Lists

And I was left unsupervised? IDK, I have had a dream for many years and that dream is to go back to Europe. I went in 2005 to the United Kingdom, and haven’t been back since because life is not overflowing with travel money. But the wish remained all these years, so I planned and saved and finally (FINALLY) made it reality. So as a half apology that I missed so many months of blogging, and half a brag because…

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The Insecure Writer’s Support Group Puts up a Stop Sign

2023-06-07
SE White
Goals and Hopes, Insecure Writer's Support Group Post, Writing Process

It’s the first Wednesday of June, which means it’s that time again! Come experience the Insecure Writer’s Support Group and all of the unbridled enthusiasm we have to offer. We’re also online with the tag #IWSG or @IWSG Our co-hosts this month, keeping us all on track, are the wonderful Patrcia Josephine, Diedre Knight, Olga Godim, J. Lenni Dorner, and Cathrina Constantine! And the question for June 7th is If you ever did stop writing, what would you replace it with? *Gasp* Stop writing? What would…

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The Insecure Writer’s Support Group has you Covered

2023-02-01
SE White
Goals and Hopes, Insecure Writer's Support Group Post, My Books, Recommendations

Welcome to the first Insecure Writer’s Group post of the year for me. Somehow January scarpered, and here we are in the first post for February. If you’re thinking of joining the group yourself, let me reassure you that once a month posts really aren’t as difficult as I’m making it look. Come join us! This month the kind co-hosts keeping us all on track are Jacqui Murray, Ronel Janse van Vuuren, Pat Garcia, and Gwen Gardner! Our optional question for this month is…

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So How is Author Life Going, SE?

2022-09-21
SE White
Goals and Hopes, My Books, Plotters vs. Pantsers, Romance Writers of America, Writing Process

I’m so glad you asked. (Literally no one has asked). I did promise to make this independent author journey transparent, though. So you are about to get the update you might not have wanted, but will be interested in anyway. Onward! As indie author SE White I released my novella, Beneath Me, in August of 2021. You will be pleased and proud to know that Draft 2 Digital already had to send me two royalty payments. Yep! A whole $3.20…

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Release Day! First Love, the Art of Making Doughnuts

2022-09-06
SE White
Goals and Hopes, Insecure Writer's Support Group Post, My Books, Romance Tropes

The IWSG anthology is out today, and I’m so excited! Since my story is included, I had the privilege of reading the entire thing as it was getting prepared for publication, and you are in for a treat. In the book you’ll find many great short stories, bringing you back to that sensation of your first love. A cold, controlled woman who just might be thawed by the special care taken to make her doughnuts, a sweet historical, a look…

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