ontest!
I entered the photos below in a photo contest, all of the villages around, Nyon, Founex,Tannay, Versoix, Coppet. I don't expect to win, but it's still fun. Look at everyone's gorgeous photos in the gallery!
Today is Insecure Writer's Support Group Day!
Insecure Writer's Support Group
Today is Insecure Writer's Support Group Day!
Purpose: To share and encourage. Writers can express doubts and concerns without fear of appearing foolish or weak. Those who have been through the fire can offer assistance and guidance. It’s a safe haven for insecure writers of all kinds!
Posting: The first Wednesday of every month is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day. Post your thoughts on your own blog. Talk about your doubts and the fears you have conquered. Discuss your struggles and triumphs. Offer a word of encouragement for others who are struggling. Visit others in the group and connect with your fellow writer - aim for a dozen new people each time - and return comments. This group is all about connecting!
Let’s rock the neurotic writing world!
The awesome co-hosts for the October 7 posting of the IWSG are Ronel Janse van Vuuren, Liza at Middle Passages, JH Moncrieff, and Jemima Pett!
Every month, we announce a question that members can answer in their IWSG post. These questions may prompt you to share advice, insight, a personal experience or story. Include your answer to the question in your IWSG post or let it inspire your post if you are struggling with something to say.
October 7 question - Many people are calling for writers who use AI to disclose it. Most who employ ghostwriters do not admit it - do you think authors who use ghostwriters should have to disclose that, too? (Thanks Melissa Maygrove for the question!)
She's in my Canadiana playlist and in the playlist for Goldenheart, the fan fiction I wrote set in Montreal in 2002.
I read a lot of Peter May after I discovered his stories set on Lewis and Harris, while I was writing my own novels set there. Then I went on to read many of his other books and I was looking forward to more.
I'd recommend them all!
Here's the playlist for one of those novels, A Stitch in Time, where my characters travel from Switzerland to Scotland...
(Yet another job for my intern is to deal with all the videos that keep disappearing off these playlists without a trace, it's so frustrating!)
Here are the photos (I've been having trouble posting them on the contest site, so I may not enter them after all. Sigh.)
In other news, for the past week or so, I've been devouring the Dungeon Crawler Carl books. They're so fun and detailed and intricate! As an aside, the way Carl copies and pastes every description and message into his own notes is totally something I would do, ha ha!
Purpose: To share and encourage. Writers can express doubts and concerns without fear of appearing foolish or weak. Those who have been through the fire can offer assistance and guidance. It’s a safe haven for insecure writers of all kinds!
Posting: The first Wednesday of every month is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day. Post your thoughts on your own blog. Talk about your doubts and the fears you have conquered. Discuss your struggles and triumphs. Offer a word of encouragement for others who are struggling. Visit others in the group and connect with your fellow writer - aim for a dozen new people each time - and return comments. This group is all about connecting!
Let’s rock the neurotic writing world!
The awesome co-hosts for the October 7 posting of the IWSG are Ronel Janse van Vuuren, Liza at Middle Passages, JH Moncrieff, and Jemima Pett!
Every month, we announce a question that members can answer in their IWSG post. These questions may prompt you to share advice, insight, a personal experience or story. Include your answer to the question in your IWSG post or let it inspire your post if you are struggling with something to say.
October 7 question - Many people are calling for writers who use AI to disclose it. Most who employ ghostwriters do not admit it - do you think authors who use ghostwriters should have to disclose that, too? (Thanks Melissa Maygrove for the question!)
I definitely think that authors should disclose ghostwriters!
Two of my favourite series, Animorphs and the Babysitters Club, used ghostwriters in the later books of the series. I think it's unfair for the ghostwriters themselves, and to the readers, to not be upfront about the practice.
In the case of Animorphs, it didn't stop me from devouring all the books. In the case of the Babysitters Club, it gives me a good reason to stop reading around book 50, and not buy another 50 or so books! For the former, it was obviously an issue of time, but for the latter, it was too evidently the publisher trying to keep making money off the brand.
As a reader, it's nice to be able to make informed choices!
I found out yesterday that singer Sass Jordan and author Brian May have passed away. Sass Jordan was a Montreal fixture while I was growing up. I have a handful of her songs always stuck in my head.
Two of my favourite series, Animorphs and the Babysitters Club, used ghostwriters in the later books of the series. I think it's unfair for the ghostwriters themselves, and to the readers, to not be upfront about the practice.
In the case of Animorphs, it didn't stop me from devouring all the books. In the case of the Babysitters Club, it gives me a good reason to stop reading around book 50, and not buy another 50 or so books! For the former, it was obviously an issue of time, but for the latter, it was too evidently the publisher trying to keep making money off the brand.
As a reader, it's nice to be able to make informed choices!
I found out yesterday that singer Sass Jordan and author Brian May have passed away. Sass Jordan was a Montreal fixture while I was growing up. I have a handful of her songs always stuck in my head.
She's in my Canadiana playlist and in the playlist for Goldenheart, the fan fiction I wrote set in Montreal in 2002.
I read a lot of Peter May after I discovered his stories set on Lewis and Harris, while I was writing my own novels set there. Then I went on to read many of his other books and I was looking forward to more.
I'd recommend them all!
Here's the playlist for one of those novels, A Stitch in Time, where my characters travel from Switzerland to Scotland...
(Yet another job for my intern is to deal with all the videos that keep disappearing off these playlists without a trace, it's so frustrating!)
Here are the photos (I've been having trouble posting them on the contest site, so I may not enter them after all. Sigh.)
In other news, for the past week or so, I've been devouring the Dungeon Crawler Carl books. They're so fun and detailed and intricate! As an aside, the way Carl copies and pastes every description and message into his own notes is totally something I would do, ha ha!
Do you have story playlists?
un times!
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