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The IWSG Wants to Know if You Have Regrets

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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Pleading for Some Change in the Book Industry, an IWSG Post

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, 2026 posting of the IWSG are Rebecca Douglass, Ronel Janse van Vuuren, Cathrina Constantine, and Jacqui Murray!Don’t forget to go say hello as you’re hopping…

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The Insecure Writer’s Support Group Has an Idea

It is that time of the month again! Come join us insecure writers as we forge a path towards our dreams. The main point of the group is to connect, reassure, and support your author journey, no matter what it looks like. We meet on the first Wednesday of every month. Come on in! The co-hosts we should offer our thanks to for June are Victoria Marie Lees, Sarah Foster, Natalie Aguirre, and C. Lee McKenzie! Go check in on…

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The Insecure Writer’s Support Group Gets Warm and Fuzzy

It’s the first Wednesday in May, so it must be IWSG day! It’s the day to post your thoughts, talk about your doubts and brag about the fears you have conquered on your own blog or site. Offer a word of encouragement for others who are struggling. Visit around the group and connect with your fellow writers. We’re all insecure down here! #ImSorryIMadeAStephenKingPun #CouldntHelpIt #ConstantReadersGonnaConstant The co-hosts keeping us all on track this month are Jenni Enzor, Jemima Pett, Jamie of…

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

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

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

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

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 Favorites

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

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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