How to Know if Your Story Idea Has Legs, plus Reflecting on 2023 and Looking at 2024
Announcements:
Early Bird registration is open for the 2024 Writer Craft Writing Retreat. At this point, there is only four private tickets left and three shared tickets. We'll likely sell out again. ValerieIhsan.com/retreat for more info.
I'm in a new anthology by Tsunami Press with my essay "Eye Contact." It's in stores now; order wherever books are sold.
Season of the Shadow up now! (Erick's new title.)
UPDATE:
Valerie:
meeting with co-writers in Jan
follow the feeling; Aligned Action are my 2024 buzz words.
reflection
Erick:
new series work: mapped out first three books
written reader magnet for new series
Just finished:
I'M READING: What's a Poor Girl to Do?: Prostitution in Mid-Nineteenth Century America by Elizabeth A. Topping and Ma and Me by Putsana Reang
Praying with Jane Eyre by Vanessa Zoltan
The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo
Up Next:
Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the the Early West by Anne Seagraves
Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
Harness: A Systemic Approach: Guaranteed to Revolutionize Your Coaching by Tess Cope
Erick's Reading:
Nejishiki Yoshiharu
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