How to Find Writing Community

How to Find Writing Community

Segment 1 (Announcements/Author Updates):

  • (Valerie) decluttering, pitching conferences, starting new projects

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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?

  • 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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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.

Book Recs for writing/creativity/business:

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)

The 3 Types and 5 Rules of Screenwriting

The 3 Types and 5 Rules of Screenwriting

Favorite Writing Craft Books

Favorite Writing Craft Books