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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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SE and that Summer Classical Feel

2022-08-10
SE White
Blogging, Friday Favorites, Recommendations, Silliness, Top 10 Lists

The recent recommendation posts going up on my site may lead readers to believe that all I ever read is filthy, filthy smut. And this is 90% accurate. But I am also an intense mood reader and sometimes I’m in a different reading mood. Then I turn to either horror, or my other surprise favorite: classical literature. I know. I know. Wtf, SE? How random can you get? Just wait, it gets even less comprehensible. Because if I’m being honest,…

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In Which the Author Continues Interviewing Herself About Her Books

2022-02-17
SE White
Blogging, Goals and Hopes, My Books, Silliness, Writing Process

Who was your inspiration for Colton Johnson in “Step Into Love?” My youngest sister was partly the inspiration for Colton. She deals with a lot of similar issues in her daily life, although she’s never been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. This might be because she absolutely loathes going to the doctor’s office and getting her to tell a doctor how she’s actually feeling is like squeezing water out of a rock. His outlook on life is very similar to hers.…

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In Which the Author, Who Assures You She is Definitely this Odd in Real Life, Interviews Herself

2022-01-27
SE White
Blogging, Goals and Hopes, My Books, Romance Tropes, Silliness, Writing Process

What were you like as a child? Okay, first, this is an awfully personal question to lead off an interview with and I’m already questioning your motives, interviewer. I’m told as I child I was energetic and active, to the point of being annoying. I would walk up to perfect strangers, to introduce myself as “shy”. I sang Disney songs ad-nauseum. And I liked to create lots of little stories with my friends. I also remember being dreamy and distracted,…

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

2021-10-14
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: #You’reTooPoor #SillyAuthor #RetreatsAreForBestSellers 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? GIVE ME A BREAK. What I thought it would be like: Editing, DONE. Polishing? This baby…

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The Insecure Writer’s Support Group Didn’t Raise No Quitter

2021-07-07
SE White
Blogging, Goals and Hopes, Insecure Writer's Support Group Post, My Books, Writing Process

The Insecure Writer’s Support Group meets online the first Wednesday of every month to share, commiserate, and encourage each other. It’s a safe haven for insecure writers of all kinds! You can sign up for the group yourself by going here. The awesome co-hosts for the July 7 posting of the IWSG are Pat Garcia, Victoria Marie Lees, and Louise – Fundy Blue! And the IWSG chose to go straight for the superior vena cava today with the question: What would make you quit…

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Why Titles are Literally the Worst

2021-06-30
SE White
Blogging, My Books, Plotters vs. Pantsers, Silliness, Writing Process

Inquiring authors want to know: What’s harder for you to come up with, book titles or character names? (It’s me. I’m inquiring authors.) My answer: Titles. Titles are the hardest thing ever. Titles are horrible, nasty, no good, very bad, brain-killing beasts. Compared to titles, naming my characters is a breeze. And not like, a fourteen-kilometer-per-hour windstorm breeze, one of those gentle zephyr kind. So many options, all of them easy breezy. I can use names I like the sound…

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Author Life: Tiptoe Through the AHHH TOO MANY BUTTERFLIES GET THEM OFF OF ME

2021-06-16
SE White
Blogging, Insecure Writer's Support Group Post, My Books

I’m going to take a leap of faith and generalize something because this has been bothering me lately and I want it out in the world to bother you, too. Although in any other context generalizing is a BAD IDEA and I should never ever do it…in this one case I think it’s less a stereotype and more of a sterling truth. Authors/Writers live a life stuffed full of imaginings. I feel like this is true of all of us.…

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