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Category: Insecure Writer’s Support Group

  • IWSG November 2025

    November 5 question – When you began writing, what did you imagine your life as a writer would be like? Were you right, or has this experience presented you with some surprises along the way? If we go back in time to elementary or even high school, I dreamt I would be the next Richard…

  • IWSG October 2025

    October 1 question – What is the most favorite thing you have written, published or not? And why? It’s October already? Guh. Wasn’t I still trying to process the summer to-do list stress last week? The to-do list that never made it to the got-done list? Like get my body into spooky-season shape? I’m pretty…

  • IWSG September 2025

    Now that I’ve published the first book, and I’m working on formatting the second, I’m struggling with a few things, mentally and emotionally. One of the bigger “things” I deal with, is the feeling of being a burden. That’s part of why it took me so long to start self-publishing in the first place: How…

  • IWSG August 2025

    This month’s question: What is the most unethical practice in the publishing industry? I’ve gone off on the Author not being able to maintain their rights and getting hoodwinked on their rights and all that a few three times, so I won’t again. I shall now expound upon a different topic: but I’ve stared at…

  • IWSG July 2025

    Getting an LCCN is a bit confusing. You need it to make it easier for libraries in the US to find you, but it is not a requirement. If you get an LCCN, You have to submit a hardcopy book to the Library of Congress. Which I have to do anyway for the copyright. I’m…

  • IWSG June 2025

    June 4 question – What were some books that impacted you as a child or young adult? Hmmm… The brain got rattled about last year, so this isn’t the easiest question. I remember there were a number of fairy tale books and what not that I enjoyed a great deal. Witches, unicorns, dragons, spirits–any culture,…