Tag: Insecure Writer’s Support Group

  • The Grinch Who Doesn’t Like NaNo

    Before we get started, my insecurity today is that I will be hunted down, stoned, hung, decapitated, burned at the stake, my head mailed to some black-market ebay winner and my ashes strewn in three different oceans for writing this post. I’ve re-written this post 8 times, trying to find a way to avoid that…

  • Contemplating Comebacks for When I am Phenomenally Famous

    Or at least read by more than three friends. After I’m published. You know. Baby steps. But looking to the future never hurts. In theory. Some of the stuff I see when I cruise the web and peek at author websites, especially the newer authors, makes me realize that I’m not just an introvert. I…

  • Some Of Us Work Different

    People tell me that the reason why I don’t write as fast as I want is because I don’t take my writing seriously. I don’t treat it as a job. They give me such sage advice as: Schedule your writing time and guard it religiously Get up an hour or two before the kids do…

  • I Don’t Have Issues … I Went With The Supscription Package

    It seemed like a better deal at the time. About 2 years ago, the writing reawakened after an extended hiatus. Not sure why, but it did and I certainly wasn’t going to kick the muse out the door just because she looked different. Before that moment, I’d always thought of myself as a one-genre girl.…

  • An Introvert Trying to Sell … Anything

    I’m an introvert. I’ll pause while ya’ll gasp in shock. Sadly this doesn’t just go into physical interactions. It extends into the digital world as well. I do not understand Twiiter. I’ve tried, people my age (at the grand old ripeness of 39) and older have told me about the ease in which it works.…

  • The Down Spiral

    My alarm goes off to remind me that I have to take the kids to school. Do not cry. You can cry when they’re gone. When you’re alone in the house, you can have a nice little nervous breakdown and scream and cry and whimper all you like but not right now. Not when they…