IWSG Day, Ozzy, Ahlberg, and Upcoming SIWC

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Happy Insecure Writer's Support Group Day!

Insecure Writer's Support Group

A database resource site and support group for writers and authors. Featuring weekly guests and tips, a monthly blogfest gathering, a Facebook group, and thousands of links – all to benefit writers! #IWSG

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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!

The first Wednesday of every month is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day.
This group is all about connecting!

  
Let’s rock the neurotic writing world!

The awesome co-hosts for the August 6 posting of the IWSG are Ronel Janse van Vuuren, Natalie Aguirre, Sarah - The Faux Fountain Pen, and Olga Godim!


Speaking of insecure, I've had a touch of it lately.

I've registered for the next Surrey International Writers' Conference (coming up in October! Join me! There's an online attendance option!) and was reallyhoping to have a short story to enter in the contest. I also need to get some of my novels together and edit them and find small publishers for them...

But the days are packed with family and work and other writing and reading (and knitting and crocheting!) and somehow...I still haven't done it. I need a new weekly schedule! It's a bit silly if the last one I set for myself was during a pandemic!


I've got three cover songs to share to commemorate the death of Ozzy Osbourne:
No More Tears guitar cover by Kristian Nairn (Hodor! Wee John Feeney!)

War Pigs solo piano cover by Amanda Palmer

War Pigs piano and drums cover by the Dresden Dolls:


In other news, author Allan Ahlberg has passed away. I knew some of his books without knowing I knew them. Then we got a copy of Each Peach Pear Plum when older kiddo was born, and I've been colllecting his books ever since and there are still so many we haven't read yet!

What are some of your favourite young readers books?

Comments

Crystal Collier said…
Ambition... I get that with setting goals and then not following through. I've had so many that I set then had to reevaluate as I got into them. Were they worth it? Sometimes.
6 August 2025 at 07:29
Alex J. Cavanaugh said…
Make that schedule! It will help you.
6 August 2025 at 09:28
Tyrean Martinson said…
A new schedule can definitely help, and while I don't know your stance on AI - so hopefully this won't get me in big trouble - I have used AI platforms to create schedules - like writing down every single thing I want to do in the next week or month including appointments, necessary time for helping my parents, my sleep schedule, my time for exercise, stretching, and then the goals and how much I think I can write in an hour as part of that. I enter that all in and ask it to give me a schedule that's reasonable and allows me some brainspace for downtime, and it does. Again, not sure this is something that would work or be okay with you, but I find it to be a helpful use of AI that isn't actually a "writing help" but a schedule help. So it's doing the task I don't like so I can do the task I like.
6 August 2025 at 13:10
Jeff said…
I am terrible at scheduling and sticking to it. I am also at an age it seems that musicians, authors, and celebrities of yesterday are dying all the time. RIP Ozzie.
6 August 2025 at 13:52
Liz A. said…
Schedules are made to be changed to fit your life. It sounds like you've been busy.
6 August 2025 at 17:35
Sarah Foster said…
Other things always seem to push writing to the side for me. Hope you're able to make a schedule that works for you!
6 August 2025 at 18:44
Olga Godim said…
An online attendance at a conference sounds right up my alley. Maybe ... If I register I'll let you know.
7 August 2025 at 00:32
Hilary Melton-Butcher said…
Hi Deniz - sometimes deadlines inspire us ... but you've always got lots going on, so understand 'the delays' ... the Ahlberg books I don't know ... but not having kids I suppose it's logical. We had lots of kids books growing up ... we were lucky. Cheers Hilary
10 August 2025 at 08:09
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