Hello, Everyone! It’s the first Wednesday of the month, and it's time for us to reach out to each other:
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It’s time for another meeting of the Insecure Writers Support
Group – IWSG started by the amazing Ninja Captain Alex J. Cavanaugh.
Alex stood out and caught my
attention during the A to Z Blogging Challenge this year. Checking out his IWSG
Website, I’ve found writers who are excellent in their craft and don’t mind
sharing their weaknesses and strengths to encourage each other. I can honestly say this site is a safe
haven for any writer whether secure or insecure with writing.
Click the highlighted IWSG if you would like to be a part of this
phenomenal group. You won’t regret it.
Our purpose: To share and encourage. Writers can express doubts
and concerns without fear of appearing foolish or weak.
The awesome co-hosts for the August 5 posting of the
IWSG will be Nancy Gideon, Bob R Milne, Doreen McGettigan, Chrys Fey, Bish Denham, and myself, Pat Garcia!
Having friends as guests from the United States,
July started out with extreme pressure for me, which means that I struggled with the fact that
I was not writing as much as I desired, which threw me into a boxing fight
with myself about ordering my priorities, which caused me to question my own sense
of destiny and the path I was taking to get where I want to be.
Being at the beck and call of our fictional or non-fictional characters 24/7 for 365 days in the year brings destruction. Don’t believe me? Look at some of those writers who never got
pass their first book after it was published. The world waited on a second book,
but the first book had imprisoned them and refused to let them move on to write the second one.
So, for three weeks in July, I practiced not writing on my manuscripts and articles,
not looking at my emails, not even going to my own Facebook, Twitter, and
Wattpad, and not working on my own blogs. Instead, I looked at other writer’s
blogs, and I read, I mean really read, what they were writing, rather than just glancing through on the way to another blog posting by another
writer. I let what they wrote sink in
and juggle my heart and my brain and wrote comments that I hope generated
encouragement and let them feel that I cared about their writing. And you know what? It did me sooooo much good!
So, what about my hypothesis? It is an inherent
belief in my genetic makeup that writers write, however, within me is also the
belief that effective writers step back and cheer other writers on.
considering all the variables of my
hypothesis, both positive and negative, I have come to the following conclusion:
Thus,
If writers write, then, writers must take breaks.
Happy August IWSG Writers! Keep marching. You’re all really fabulous.
Shalom,
Pat
Garcia
