Towards the end of September, I had another bit of a slip-up. Relapsed after a good solid run of committing to my goals and my writing. So currently October is being devoted to rebuilding my routines and habits and trying really hard not to think about NaNoWriMo because frankly it’s an awful lot to consider at the moment. Oh, and founding a writing group!
Writing News
The biggest news is starting a creative writing course and a writing group for the Southampton area. Since the class isn’t terribly interesting to any of you, I’ll move along to the group I started.
It’s called Itchen to Write, and you might’ve noticed the link at the top menu for it. Primarily, I want it to be about helping writers make a career of writing. I’m a terrible role model for this, but the tools involved could help others. I’m basing it largely off the writing group I attended in Atlanta, formerly 10 Days Before, and now called Atlanta Writes. It’ll involve a number of different meeting formats. Primarily group critiques but also focusing on writing, querying, and mock agent pitching. I also want to try storytelling games, to flex the creative muscles and force people out of their comfort zones.
In other news, I finished linking up the Twitter Tags page on here. While it’ll always be under construction, it’s complete enough to keep me on track with the Twitterverse. Maybe it’ll even help a few people discover new outlets for their writing and for building a community.
Going forward…
So for this month I’d honestly just like to get ship shape from a routine and general life maintenance perspective, plod along on Nushada’s rough draft, read Frankenstein, and see if I can get an author interview posted on here.
I also have an idea in the pipes for a regular research feature, which I hope will help others as well as myself. And as HootSuite have just severely limited their post scheduling for free accounts, and their first paid account is way more than I need and way more than I’m willing to spend, I may also be reviewing HootSuite’s alternatives from a writerly perspective. Watch this space!
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