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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 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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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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Feminism, and Romance?

2023-11-15
SE White
Blogging, Romance Tropes, Romance Writers of America, Top 10 Lists

I’ve noticed a trend on several Bookstagram accounts I follow. It is a good trend, and I am all for it. At the root, it’s about making sure female authors have the same opportunity male authors do to be on your bookshelves and receive awards when it’s time for those literary trophies to be handed out. Equality=good. One specific part of this growing movement stuck out to me, and I’m going to give you my thoughts on it. For free,…

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Bookish Worlds I Would Live In Tomorrow, and A Few I Wish to Avoid

2022-04-14
SE White
Blogging, Recommendations, Silliness, Top 10 Lists

Today I’m making a half-and-half list. Five bookish worlds I would move to in one second, no questions asked, YES my bags are already packed; and five bookish worlds where I’d last long enough for one good Hollywood scream. First, the top five worlds I would disappear to in an instant if it were somehow possible: 1. Narnia If you tell me you never wanted to live in a world where the animals could wish you ‘good morning’, I will…

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Top Ten Please Just Stop the Series

2022-03-17
SE White
Blogging, Critique, Silliness, Top 10 Lists, Top Ten Tuesdays

Slightly cheating for this week’s top ten, but I hope you’ll forgive me. Waaay back in October, 2017 I wrote a post for Books Rock My World that has a lot to do with the chosen topic for this week. If you didn’t know I write for that site, now you do know. [Unless you hated one of my articles, in which case haha, NO, that’s totally another SE White. It’s a very common name. Don’t flame me.] Anyway. Leaving a series…

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10 Books That Have All the Sensory Feels

2022-03-10
SE White
Blogging, Recommendations, Reviews, Silliness, Top 10 Lists, Top Ten Tuesdays

This is all about the trip down memory lane. It sounds strange at first to think a book, dead leaves stuffed full of inky imprints of soul, could come with a strong sensory memory attached to anything other than your eyes. But if you think about it, a lot of different things combine to be part of the reading experience. Where you were, what you were going through at the time, your environment, even what you were eating. Most of…

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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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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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