IWSG Day and Year-End Writing Roundup

nsecure Writer's Support Group Day!

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Insecure Writer's Support Group

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!   Let’s rock the neurotic writing world!   The awesome co-hosts for the January 8 posting of the IWSG are Rebecca Douglass, Beth Camp, Liza @ Middle Passages, and Natalie @ Literary Rambles! January 8 question - Describe someone you admired when you were a child. Did your opinion of that person change when you grew up?

Great question!

I admired a few people here and there, strong friends, authors or musicians...

Among my family, I always admired my grandmother. As I grew older, I was able to take a more balanced view of her qualities, but that just made her all the more real -- and inspiring! She was a paragon of patience, calm,and living in the moment, and I'm still trying to learn to absorb those traits into myself. She was interested in so many things, excited by little things, and brought peace and comfort wherever she went.

Compared with last year, when the annual writing roundup only appeared in March (!), I'm doing a lot better this year!

Here's the writing roundup for 2024:

January: I posted excitedly about the Writers on the Moon project. I've been meaning to post an update since then, but couldn't bring myself to do it, after the launch failure. But now there's new hope! Our little group is scheduled to be on the next lander! Fingers crossed. I'll try to share a proper, detailed update soon!

February: I shared the Larksong playlist

March: A new book by Ryan Bevan!

Also, the year-end writing roundup

April: I revised my social media links

May: I revised the I Need an Intern list!

June: The last day of the serial posting of my novel Larksong, all available to read on the blog!

July: I shared some fun story prompt generators!

August: No writing news on the blog, just photos from Athens (travel roundup coming soon, I hope!)

September: Publication anniversary for Dark Matter: Artificial, our Insecure Writer’s Support Group Anthology

Also, the Summer Fire contest is still open!

October: A few photos for stories set in Yorkshire

November: Publication anniversary for Druid's Moon

Also, NaNoWriMo!

December: I co-hosted Insecure Writer's Support Group day and had a poem published in the Sauti collection!

In terms of Our Flag Means Death, I wrote about 100 stories (twice the number in 2023) and 600,000 words (about 100,000 more than in 2023), with stories ranging from short (the shortest is 311 words!) to long (the longest were the two at c. 30,000 words each; compared with in 2023, I wrote mostly novellas and short stories rather than novels).

As for goals...

I have two:

Keep writing for OFMD

Submit Larksong and a few short stories to small publishers. Fingers crossed!

Who did you admire when you were a child?

Have you shared a year-end post?