Our Twitter handle Our Twitter handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG. 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. Sign Up HERE.
August 6 question – What is the most unethical practice in the publishing industry?
ANWSER:
I don’t really know nor thought about it much. I guess not wanting to pay authors what they deserve for their work. Taking away ways we make money and making it not work, or non-existent by creating a pay-to-play system. Taking away Indie friendly tools that have become nonexistent in a pay to play system. .
Today is day 86 in the hospital for me, still awaiting approval. 🙏Prayers needed–that I will be approved and get the Rehab I seriously need.
I have been editing a friends manuscript, and doing IWSG Instagram, Newsletter, and Facebook admin things while in hospital. I have also been the Sat Fellowship feedback zoom call for my Ream subscription fiction. Writing, not so much.
However, I need to and plan to attempt to write a flash fiction story for an advent calendar ASAP. I have participated in the advent for the last several years. I also need to write my October Storytime flash fiction, my Grumpy short story for Stormdance, and get back to revising and editing my series book 1 for Midlife Ghostwalker: Katje Storm.
So I have a lot of writing I need to do that I have been neglecting with this big Life Happened incident. I am better, and hope to get physically stronger with Rehab..
I’ll see ya next month, if not sooner. 🙏Prayers appreciated.
Our Twitter handle Our Twitter handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG. 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. Sign Up HERE.
September 4 question – Since it’s back to school time, let’s talk English class. What’s a writing rule you learned in school that messed you up as a writer?
I made good grades in English, but what messed me up was the “changing times”, aging, and instead of two spaces after a period it is now one. Still can’t do it has to always be fixed. Why change or fix something that was not broken?
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Our Twitter handle Our Twitter handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG. 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.
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 A 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.
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What others say about me:
Meg Stewart (Fantasy Author) Also Freelance Content Writer, Software Guru, Technology and Business Coach –Juneta Key held my feet to the fire, made me choose one world to work on, and helped me plot three books in that world and possibly a fourth!
Vanessa Wells Author Storyteller (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Cozy Witchy Mystery)–My whole world changed last year when I finally hired her to do developmental editing on one of my stories. Wow!!! I was shocked at how much depth she was able to help me add to the story.
Shaunta Grimes—Middle-Grade Author, Nonfiction Author,—Founder and CEO of Ninja Writers Club, Guild & Academy.–Juneta is the BOMB! Every time I talk to her about my work-in-progress she whips it into shape. Not by doing the work for me, but by asking the exact right question so that I can see the path for my work. We call her the velvet hammer and if you work with her for half an hour, you’ll know why.
Mark Ingram–Author (Science Fiction, Time Travel, Thrillers)–I’m not a pantser. When I started working with Juneta I’d already rigorously studied and applied the five key plot points. I’d read books, take classes, etc. In working with Juneta I realized things about my story that I hadn’t recognized, issues with pacing and tension, plot points that didn’t make sense. It was a pleasure to work with her and I would certainly do it again for future books.
Our Twitter handle Our Twitter handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG. 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.
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 a 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. Remember, the question is optional! December 6 question: Book reviews are for the readers. When you leave a book review, do you review for the Reader or the Author? Is it about what you liked and enjoyed about your reading experience, or do you critique the author?
MY ANWSER:
I review for the reader. I appreciate when reviews help me decide if a book is worth my time to read and whether it will give me my reading fix. My TIME is precious and I am selective where I spend it. I don’t won’t to waste it reading something I won’t enjoy or get my reading fix.
Reviews in retail are for the reader, not the author, although the author can use what is liked and/or disliked or mention to help improve their stories. There is a place for critique, but reader reviews is not it. The review is about the reading experience (although how good the writing is affects this, but should be relayed in how it affected the reading experience, not what the author did wrong so much).
The review should tell if the book is something I will enjoy reading or not—sharing your experience allows the reader to make an informed decision/selection. Mistakes are not so important to me as GIVING me a GREAT immersive story—give me that and I can overlook A LOT and I will continue to read the author. Suck me in–Pull me in and make me CARE about your characters and I am there and happy.
Our Twitter handleOur Twitter handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG. 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.
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 a 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. Remember, the question is optional! November 1 question: November is National Novel Writing Month. Have you ever participated? If not, why not?
MY ANWSER: Yes, since July 2013. I won last year for the first time in November, but only because I included all my writing, just my project. I don’t know that I will take part in “the push” for 50,000 this year, but I will BE writing and editing. Want to be my friend here is my profile info.
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