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The Social Media Beast Requires Regular Feeding from Your Author Toolbox

2020-09-16

Author Toolbox Blog Hop Post, Blogging, Goals and Hopes, Recommendations, Silliness

This is an author toolbox blog post. The toolbox is a group of authors who come together to learn, share resources, and grow. Non-author friends who are in publishing are also welcome to join in. We’re going on three years strong now! Come check our group out and see what you think. In this day and age authors have to put ourselves out there, hanging weightless in cyberspace with multiple tentacles dangling into the ether. We need a platform. We’ve…

WIP According to Terry Pratchett

2020-09-09

SE White

Goals and Hopes, My Books, Recommendations, Silliness, Writing Process

In which the author, who is not crazy, imagines a conversation on writing with Terry Pratchett; who died two years ago.

The Insecure Writer’s Support Group Beta Reads

2020-09-02

SE White

Critique, Insecure Writer's Support Group Post, My Books, Silliness

This is an Insecure Writer’s Support group post. The purpose of the group is to share, encourage, and express doubts or insecurities without feeling foolish, because believe me, we’ve all been there too. If you’d like to sign up for the hop yourself, click over here. The group is also on Twitter (@The IWSG) and on Instagram #IWSG The September 2 question is: If you could choose one author, living or dead, to be your beta partner, who would it…

Six First Aid Steps for Bad Feedback: an IWSG Post

2020-08-05

SE White

Blogging, Critique, Goals and Hopes, Insecure Writer's Support Group Post, My Books, Silliness, Writing Process

As part of the celebration for author Chrys Fey’s latest book release, we’re talking about writer’s block, depression, and the varied obstacles life will throw in your way as you try to publish. My contribution for the blog hop is about dealing with bad feedback. This could be editorial comments, a scathing one-star review, rejection letters, dismissive friends or family; anything which makes you feel like a big anvil made of “NO” just landed on your head. I know about…

10 Reasons Writers Are Definitely Creatures of the Night; Author Toolbox Post

2020-07-15

SE White

Author Toolbox Blog Hop Post, Blogging, Silliness, Top 10 Lists, Writing Process

We function best with comfy, secluded, darkened spaces. In a house, there was a writing cave. Inside that writing cave, there was a desk. At that desk, there was an author and an empty notebook. Under that desk, there was a blanket fort, and in that blanket fort there was . . . a writer’s block. See? It just works. 2. Random screams into the void have high probability. Also we’ll hiss at our Word program, to assert dominance, after…

The Insecure Writer’s Support Group Changes the Writing Industry

2020-07-01

SE White

Blogging, Insecure Writer's Support Group Post, Silliness, Top 10 Lists

The Insecure Writer’s Support Group is a place where writers can express doubts and concerns without fear of appearing foolish or weak. It’s a safe haven for you on your author journey and available at this website where you can also find resources, articles, and various other help. The awesome co-hosts for the July 1 posting of the IWSG are Jenni Enzor,Beth Camp, Liesbet, Tyrean Martinson, and Sandra Cox! Don’t forget to go say hello as you’re hopping today. July 1 question: There have…

Which Came First? The Plot, or the Characters?

2020-06-24

SE White

Goals and Hopes, My Books, Silliness, Writing Process

This is a perennial question authors get asked, and it’s just as unanswerable as the chicken and egg conundrum. Look, let’s be brutally honest here. Authors as a whole live in a half-unreal world with their heads feeling cloudy ALL THE TIME. Fictional people fill our brains with ghostly conversations. Interesting, exciting scenes play out behind our closed eyelids. Fantasy worlds and concepts capture our imagination. Reality is pretty much optional, okay. In the midst of all this noise, pinpointing…

What I Thought Author Life Would Be Like vs. What it’s Actually Like

2020-04-29

SE White

Blogging, My Books, Silliness, Writing Process

What I thought it would be like: Writing retreats full of discourse, stimulating discussions, plotting, and lots of other authors. What it’s actually like: What I thought it would be like: Ideas lining up, falling neatly into their places, everything is flowing and glorious and ticking along like pure, perfect, writing clockwork. What it’s actually like: EVER HEARD OF SLEEPING, Ideas? Yeah, I didn’t think so. What I thought it would be like: Editing, DONE. Polishing? This baby is shining.…

Stranger Things Season 1-Episode 8 Finale Review

2020-04-22

SE White

Blogging, Reviews, Silliness

TLDR; I just cried for thirty straight minutes. Everyone who said I would love Stranger Things was so very right. You know who you are, and you have my complete agreement, and what have you all done to me. The Upside Down First thoughts: I am not emotionally prepared for any of this. Bring it on. We’re starting with a big, brutal helping of THE TRUTH for “Papa” and I could sit and watch nothing but Joyce laying into him…

An Updated Slang Dictionary for Your Author Toolbox

2020-04-15

SE White

Author Toolbox Blog Hop Post, Silliness, Top 10 Lists, Writing Process

This is an Author Toolbox hop post. Every month, the hop supports writers of every stage with resources, ideas, inspiration, tips, and tricks for any and all comers. Join us here at author Raimey Gallant’s website. We’ve been here before (in 2018 with A Modern Slang Dictionary for Your Writer Toolbox) but guess what. It’s 2020 now and the slang has changed! Why does it change so fast? Is it only to annoy us elderly folk? Is it a result of instant…