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Today’s lesson is from Jess Penrose and has some great tips!

Balance of Writing Life and Health

Disclaimer: I am not a professional in any of the subjects discussed in this lesson, and am simply stating what I’ve found from research and experience.

“Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone des…[Read more]

Today’s topic is, What to Do When You’re Not Writing: Cultivating the eye of an artist by Martin Detwiler. Enjoy!

When we sit down at our desks and take up our pens, ready to mark down the next few hundred words, what is the mindset that has filled up all the space on either side of our writing? That is, do we consider ourselves writers, a…[Read more]

This weeks post is written by yours truly and is about how to write when you have a busy life.

24 hours. 1,440 minutes. 86,400 seconds. That’s how much time we have each day. And yet, it seems like we never have enough hours, minutes, or seconds to get everything done. What do you do when you can’t seem to squeeze in even a small amount of wri…[Read more]

Our topic this week is on being a beta-reader. This one was also written by Daeus Lamb. Have you ever beta-read for anyone?

Beta reading is a great way to make friends, help others, and even polish your skills.

Today, I want to give you some tips so that, when you beta read, the friend you’re working for will be thrilled they asked for your h…[Read more]

Welcome to our new members! Welcome Amie Anne, ToriJean23, esummercat, and MyClipboardIsMyViolin! Let’s introduce ourselves. Share the name you’d like to be called, the genre you usually write in, what your current work in progress is, and something fun about yourself. Feel free to share more than that. 🙂

Also, if you’d like to jump right in,…[Read more]

Note: The guildmasters decided on the topic of writing life. So each week, you will get a discussion on something to do with Writing Life. Today’s topic is written by Daeus Lamb.

We know that critique is vital for our growth as writers, yet we rarely stop to think how to optimize the critique we get.

Critique is a limited resource, so I think it…[Read more]

We have another writing prompt war! This time I get to help us work on it, so hopefully we can get some work done with it.

The writing prompt this time is: write a believable conversion scene.

Deadline: March 24th

So let’s start brainstorming and get something written!

@fawxofthecomics @martina @dragongeek @sleepwalkingmk @sam-kowal @christiann…[Read more]

Instead of doing a new post every week, I’m going to do one each month. You can subscribe to the post and I’ll only tag you in the first post each month.

So what goals do you have for this week? My goal is to get at least 6,000 words written in my rewrite of my WWI novel.

@fawxofthecomics @martina @dragongeek @sleepwalkingmk @sam-kowal @christ…[Read more]

How did your goals go last week? What are they for this week? I finished my goals last week. This week I want to go through and edit some of my next novella, but I would also like to get some sort of fiction writing done as well.

@fawxofthecomics @martina @dragongeek @sleepwalkingmk @sam-kowal @christianna-hellwig  @natalie-marie @gabrielle @je…[Read more]

Hallo!  So I noticed that we used to have a book club, but fo some reason we’re not doing it anymore. 🙁   Sooo, I thought we should start it up again!  Any ideas for books?

@fawxofthecomics @martina @dragongeek @sleepwalkingmk @sam-kowal @christianna-hellwig  @natalie-marie @gabrielle @jenwriter17 @law0413 @libby @child-of-god @katherineh [Read more]