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The Insecure Writer’s Support Group is in Their Nostalgia Era

2026-02-04
SE White
Blogging, Insecure Writer's Support Group Post, My Books, Writing Process

As always, the font of solace we experience is guided by author volunteers from the IWSG. This month we owe our thank you clicks and comments to J Lenni Dorner, Victoria Marie Lees, and Sandra Cox! And the question for February 4, 2026 is Many writers have written about the experience of rereading their work years later. Have you reread any of your early works? What was that experience like for you? You totally thought I was going for the…

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The Insecure Writer’s Support Group Makes Resolutions for 2026

2026-01-07
SE White
Blogging, Insecure Writer's Support Group Post, My Books, Writing Process

It’s the first Wednesday of the first month in 2026, so it must be time for some IWSG! Sign up for the group yourself if you are so inclined by clicking over to their form. The group can also be found somewhere in that deadly maelstrom known as Social Media by searching #IWSG or @TheIWSG We owe our co-hosting thanks this month to Shannon Lawrence, Olga Godim, Jean Davis, and Jacqui Murray! Give them a clicky-click and a comment to…

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The Great Blogging Wrap-Up of 2025

2025-12-10
SE White
Blogging, Holiday Wishes, Recommendations, Romance Tropes, Silliness, Top 10 Lists

Lets get to some maths for the year. Although I am terrible at all types of maths, I still genuinely have a lot of fun breaking my blogging year down in stats. I acknowledge that this is boring for anyone other than myself or other book bloggers. But my philosophy there is Bore Big or Go Home, so on that note, other bloggers if you’re interested the 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017 breakdowns are linked. 2020 was a lot of…

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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 Insecure Writer’s Support Group Punctures My Dreams (and My Ego)

2025-11-05
SE White
Blogging, My Books, Silliness, Writing Process

The Insecure Writer’s Support Group meets (online) on the first Wednesday of every month. To join the group yourself (or just check out the impressive list of blogs in the group) click on over and check it out. Each month, the IWSG has co-hosts supporting our meet up. For November, we owe our thank you clicks to  Jennifer Lane, Jenni Enzor, Renee Scattergood, Rebecca Douglass, Lynn Bradshaw, and Melissa Maygrove! And there’s also a monthly question to get the creativity started. This month is a fun…

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The Insecure Writer’s Support Group Favorites

2025-10-01
SE White
Blogging, Insecure Writer's Support Group Post, Romance Tropes

To bask in the care and support of your fellow authors you just head to The Insecure Writer’s Support Group and sign your blog up on their nifty form. The awesome co-hosts for the October 1 posting of the IWSG are Beth Camp, Crystal Collier, and Cathrina Constantine! Don’t forget to go wish them a happy IWSG day and thank them for hosting this month. October 1 question – What is the most favorite thing you have written, published or not? And why? To answer,…

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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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The Insecure Writer’s Support Group and the Question of Ethics

2025-08-06
SE White
Insecure Writer's Support Group Post, My Books, Writing Process

It’s time for yet another installment of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group. We meet monthly on the first Wednesdays to offer each other support, help, guidance, and release our insecurities into the digital ether for the others in the group to systematically shoot down until we can feel better. If this sounds like an activity you want to get in on and you haven’t already, join in here. As always we have members of the group donating their time to…

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My Favorite Books With a Lovely Yellow Hue

2025-07-23
SE White
Blogging, Recommendations, Silliness, Top 10 Lists

My favorite color is yellow. It’s the color of sunshine, hope, happiness. It’s an energetic color and it makes me feel positive. It’s also summer, which makes the sunshine even more appropriate. Just because I feel like it and it’s sunny, here’s a list of books with my favorite color on the cover for you! All photos and descriptions are from Goodreads. 1. The Girl With All The Gifts This one was such a great subversion of the zombie trope,…

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The Insecure Writer’s Support Group Tries Something New

2025-07-02
SE White
Blogging, Insecure Writer's Support Group Post, Romance Tropes, Silliness

The first Wednesday of every month is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day. Post your thoughts, talk about your doubts and the fears you have conquered. Discuss your struggles and triumphs with the group. It’s a safe space to do so. As always we have kind co-hosts donating their time to keep us all on track. This hot summer month they are  Rebecca Douglass, Natalie Aguirre, Cathrina Constantine, and Louise Barbour! And the optional July 2nd question is:  Is there a genre you haven’t tried writing in…

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