Category: Insecure Writer’s Support Group

  • IWSG October

    How do major life events affect your writing? Has writing ever helped you through something? Y’all need to stop stalking me. I know I’m so fascinating, but asking questions like this is more creepy than the heavy breather on the phone (who incorrectly describes me, by the by). Years of observation have shown me a…

  • IWSG September

    What publishing path are you considering and why? This is a loaded question. Lots of baggage here. Back in my carefree and foolish youth, I thought my writing was BRILLIANT! (It was not, but everyone starts somewhere.) I thought I was a damned GENIUS! (Once again, not so much, but there’s a learning curve.) At…

  • IWSG August

    August 1 question – What pitfalls would you warn other writers to avoid on their publication journey? Oh, this one is going to be rich since I haven’t actually published anything yet. I’m going to be looking at things from a self-publishing angle, so if that isn’t your cup of tea, you can skip this…

  • IWSG July

    July 3 question – What are your ultimate writing goals, and how have they changed over time (if at all)? Ahhh… I’mma write about something else. “Things I Finally Learned After I Got Hit Over The Head With Them.” I’m an “All or Nothing”  kind of person when it comes to certain things, like volunteer…

  • IWSG June

    What’s harder for you to come up with, book titles or character names? Oh, please, GoofenDoodle. Character names are so easy. Fantasy names I can either slam together sounds until it feels right or lift something out of an article I’m reading and change a few letters. If I’m writing a fiction loosely based in…

  • IWSG April

    When your writing life is a bit cloudy or filled with rain, what do you do to dig down and keep on writing? Hey, now – No one said these questions were going to get personal. I think it depends on HOW is my writing life cloudy – Are we talking about “I have no…