Ep178: How to Find Writing Community

Segment 1 (Announcements/Author Updates):

• (Valerie) decluttering, pitching conferences, starting new projects
• Aligned Author: A Workshop in Intuitive Planning and Strategy

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• (Erick) client work, reorganizing my life around ghost-writing, new clients and project management coming up, process re-structuring.

What are you reading?

• Valerie:  In the Dream House (Carmen Maria Machado) You Will Find Your People: How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult (Lane Moore)
• • (Not ready to give up on them, but struggling to finish them:) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman; The Year of the Puppy (Alexandra Horowitz) ;  The Teller of Small Fortunes Julie Leong 
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• Erick:   Mort Terry Pratchett

• Segment 2 (Resources/Tips/Tidbits):

• Tidbit #1: comfortable chair for your office
• Tidbit #2: Human Design chart; It'll validate so much about yourself!
• Segment 3 (Mindset-Craft-Biz Check): 

Segment 4 (Main Topic):  

Writing communities look different from one to another. There's: Writing friends, Critique group, Service Trade Friends, Organizations, Conferences, Writing groups, Colleagues you can chat with at meetings that understand the writing life (don't discount this!).

I'm a writer. We all have something in common.

Stay in contact

Do I want to make this MY community?

Like-mindedness.

Compatibility, flexibility, fits my value system.

 

 

 

 

 

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Patreons: 

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https://patreon.com/strangeairmysteries

Tools:

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ProWriting Aid: https://prowritingaid.com/?afid=9378 (affiliate link)

Resources: 

"How to write an eavesdropping scene" on Erick's blog

Reading Critique Group for Writers FB Group (Jennie Komp's group)

3 Bird View FB page (Jennie Komp's business page)

Author XP (marketing for authors) (bi-monthly promotions)

Raven Publicity (publicity for authors)

The Shades of Orange (Rachel, Book Blogger on YouTube) for book recommendations SF/Fantasy/Horror

Contact Erick for business-starting advice or building a website.

Contact Valerie for author coaching.

Thomas Umstattd Jr, at Novel Marketing Podcast. Ep255: How to Create an Email Onboarding Drip Campaign

Russell P. Nohelty and Monica Leonelle's book, Get Your Book Selling on Kickstarter.

Balance meditation app.

• Story Rubric version 1.1 and podcast episode.
• Three Story Method worksheet

 

Book Recs for writing/creativity/business:

• Fast-Draft Your Memoir (Rachael Herron)

Thinking in Pictures (John Sayles)

Poemcrazy (Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge)

The Art of Dramatic Writing (Lajos Egri)

On Writing (Stephen King)

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (George Saunders)

Save the Cat! (Blake Snyder)

Writing in Restaurants (David Mamet)

Notable Mention: Story Engineering (Larry Brooks), Running Down a Dream: Your Road Map to Winning Creative Battles (Tim Grahl); Story Hypothesis (J.P. Rindfleisch IX); Three Story Method (J.Thorn and Zach Bohannon); The Anatomy of a Best Seller (Sacha Black)