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As a dyslexic writer, I understand how scary it can be to put yourself out there for others to read your work. But, it is something every writer needs to do. Whether you're submitting to a publisher or posting here for the WDC world to see, you have to get over it eventually or die forever in obscurity with your children wondering why Momma/Daddy never did anything with their work.
The purpose of my newsletter is to entertain a bit if I can, but it is also to help you look at writing ideas as a new member you might not have thought of. To address issues every writer faces at some point in time so you know you're not alone. On occasion, I will throw in a WDC technical issue on how to find your way around here or the ML. What I won't do is give you something that bores me. Yes, I know there will be spelling mistakes. I won't use every their, there or they're correctly. I may spell collage when I mean college. But, what you will get are real answers to problems I have conquered and some I'm still struggling just like some of you.
My one and only goal is to help our new members feel like the belong because you do. Different ideas are welcome. Different styles are welcome and yes even if you have in the past spelled cat K A T out loud and thought you were right or struggle to let characters lead and the plot follow, you have a place here on WDC. None of us are perfect. We all struggle and we are all here to help each other in that struggle.
Friends have jokingly suggested that I drank the WDC kool-aide. I will happily agree. I did and I am so glad I did. Here is to all of our new members finding their writing home with us as well.
Quick note: I lost my editor, He's moved three hours away and has very little internet access, all for the love of a girl. So please bear (or is it bare) with me there will be mistakes. I'm doing the best I can. Lucky for us all Firefox now offers a Grammarly app and it works here on WDC |
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I find myself in an interesting situation. I have several things I need to write and one of them is difficult for me. I have completely let it block me. I realize that was what I was doing as I sat down here to write this and yes, without trying to sound like I am bragging, because I'm not, I am completely confused. I have never had writer's block before. Don't know how to start the next chapter, write a poem. Don't know where you're going with a short story? Ask the characters. I wrote my first short story in the 6th grade and my first poem in the 7th and I never looked back. If I got stuck I just wrote something else until it was unstuck. I suppose in a way that is what I am doing now. I'm just not sure a newsletter is going to help. I've never thought that before.
Of course it's going to help. It's words on a page. Anything you get written down is writing and writing is good. Nope, not working this time. See, I decided to step out of my comfort zone and take a writing course with some friends of mine. Now, not all of the ladies are known to me. I've been gone, other than my newsletters for right around a year now. I have only recently made it back full time. But, I consider them friends because we are all on this journey of struggle and self-exploration that is writing. Some of them may be struggling just like I am. I should have waited until NANOWRIMO was over. This block for the current lesson that is due tomorrow right now,past due by the time your reading this, has done something no other piece of writing has ever done. It's blocked my poetry, my song, my muse, my other stories.
Though it has never happened to me before, my husband who is plodding away with his November Novel just smiled and said "See Honey, you are a real girl. Isn't it nice." Maybe for him. But, for me it's frustrating. I am sure it is for all of you as well. So for all of you out there struggling, I encourage you to write a blog post, go for a walk, eat some cake, drink some hot chocolate, play with your pets. Do whatever you need to do for one day to give yourself a break and let the words find you again. It's what I did and hey, at least I'm writing this newsletter. My word count is taking a serious hit, but I am writing something. So for everyone with the mid-November blaws just let me say. Hang in there. We can do this together. Eat some cake. I know I did. May go get a second piece. That was good cake. |
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