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INSECURE WRITER’S SUPPORT GROUP

 FOUNDED BY 

Ninja Captain Alex J. Cavanaugh 

Writer’s supporting, encouraging and learning from each other.   Post on your own blog about your struggles, your triumphs, and your successes.  Talk about your works in progress the good, the bad and the ugly or some other writing relating topic on your mind.   Read others, interact, comment, and grow within this wonderful author community.   Every month there is an optional question for those who may need help figuring out what to post about.

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Co-Hosts:  Fundy Blue, Beverly Stowe McClure, Erika Beebe, and Lisa Buie-Collard!

OPTIONAL IWSG Day Question: Whose perspective do you like to write from best, the hero (protagonist) or the villain (antagonist)? And why?

I tend to like to write from the perspective of the protagonist. However, I have a bad habit of turning the villain into an anti-hero type personality so have to watch for that. My villain can steal the show if I don’t catch the signs. Guess I always like the hero that is not quite the hero in the traditional sense, especially those with shades of gray or with obvious flaws.

Of course, all good heroes have those, shades of gray and flaws. I think maybe when I create a villain I feel the need to create a reason for him being the way he is and then the character refuses to cooperate and just be an outright bad guy. Drives me nuts.

ANGST: 

I feel like I am always behind. I am having trouble finishing my stories. I am freezing up. I get to a certain point and then I don’t know what comes next, and lately have found it hard to move past that.

NEWS

We have plans on the table for a Grumpy Old Gods Volume 3. This will be a Halloween edition. The call for submissions will officially go out sometime in June or early July. We have also talked about a Faeries anthology before the end of the year. If you would like to keep up with what we are doing anthology wise and submission calls, you can check our official website and sign up for our newsletter: stormdancebooks.junetakey.com

BOOK CLUB INFO FROM IWSG NEWSLETTER
The IWSG Book Club on Goodreads is changing things up!

– 5 discussion questions instead of 10
– Discussion Day poll for quick and easy participation. 
– Members can help us create Goodreads quizzes for the books we read.
– Giveaways exclusive to our members every Discussion Day.
– Freebies members can download when we announce our next reading selection.
– Writing and reading related polls for fun and insight.

We will still read a new book every other month, alternating between craft books and fictional books that demonstrate an aspect of writing, and our members will continue to vote on our fictional books. 

Our February/March 2019 book is…

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

This book was voted on by our members to be a good example of setting.

Discussion Day will be March 20th.

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Writer’s Gambit February Author Spotlights