Best Gift for A Writer #IWSG #books

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Interview with author #MahtabNarsimhan on the most recent post!
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#IWSGday

https://thegirdleofmelian.blogspot.com/2025/11/interview-with-mahtab-narsimhan-and.html

Novella -Novelette News and #IWSG AI Writing

https://jlennidorner.blogspot.com/2025/09/novella-news-and-iwsg-ai-writing.html

Writing is like oxygen to me, and if I go too long without writing, I feel like I'm suffocating.

https://i-love-space.com/2025/09/03/iwsg-writing-is-like-oxygen/

#IWSG #writingcommunity #amwriting

One of the nicest things anyone's ever said to me was: "You make me want to go learn stuff." When I write, I hope I can inspire other people to want to learn stuff, too.

https://i-love-space.com/2025/07/02/iwsg-just-keep-learning/

#amwriting #amlearning #lifelonglearner #IWSG

There are a lot of technical skills you have to learn to be a writer, but there's more to writing than just the technical stuff. You have to leave room for writerly magic to happen.

https://i-love-space.com/2025/04/02/iwsg-i-believe-in-fairies/

#IWSG #writingcommunity #amwriting #writerslife

Wrote about Gene Roddenberry for today's #IWSG post. The man had his problems, but he also had some good ideas, and Star Trek is one of the big reasons I got interesting in both writing and science.

https://i-love-space.com/2025/01/08/iwsg-hope-for-the-future/

#writingcommunity #amwriting #StarTrek

Writing Cliffhangers or Not… #IWSG
Question: Do you write cliffhangers at the end of your stories? Are they a turn-off to you as a writer and/or a reader?

Let's talk about cliffhangers, or rather what is meant by them. To me there are two different type of cliffhangers that end books. There are books that feel like the author lost the last half of the story because it c
https://kitauthor.com/writing-cliffhangers-or-not-iwsg/
#AuthorLife #cliffhangers #IWSG #plotting #series #trilogy

Confession time: I don't actually like writing. It's hard. It's tedious. I'd rather spend my free time doing something else. So why do I keep doing my writing anyway?

https://i-love-space.com/2024/12/04/iwsg-i-dont-actually-like-writing/

#IWSG #writingcommunity #amwriting

Other Creative Outlets (#IWSG)
What creative activity do you engage in when you're not writing?

I have a lot of creative activities that I like to do, but one that I want to do more of is play with my Cricut. I have made stickers and hope to get them listed in my shop soon, and they'll also be extra swag for my Muse Happens members. I've also cut out greeting cards to send to frien
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#AuthorLife #creativity #Cricut #IWSG #stickers #swag

Favorite Ghostly Tale #IWSG
(This month's question) Ghost stories fit right in during this month. What's your favorite classic ghostly tale? Tell us about it and why it sends chills up your spine.

For the record let me note that I am a "Christmas" person. And I suspect that my choice of ghost stories probably reflects that. Too much pain around the holidays for me, and f
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#Uncategorized #AChristmasCarol #CharlesDickens #GhostStory #IWSG

For this month's #IWSG meeting, we're talking about our favorite spooky stories. Mine is "The Colour Out of Space," by H.P. Lovecraft.

https://i-love-space.com/2024/10/02/iwsg-i-love-lovecraftian-horror/

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For this month's #IWSG meeting, it's time to unlearn some of the grammar rules we were taught in school.

https://i-love-space.com/2024/09/04/iwsg-unlearning-grammar-rules/

#writing #writingcommunity #grammar

August is here, which means it's time for me to summarize July and announce my poetry book preorder (it's full of scifi and fantasy poetry)! #poetry #iwsg #author

http://kristinaseyes.com/july-2024-author-updates/

For today's #IWSG question, they wanted us to talk about writing apps and writing software that we use. But I don't really like writing on the computer, so I talked about my favorite pen instead.

https://i-love-space.com/2024/07/03/iwsg-the-ultimate-writing-machine/

#writingcommunity #writing #writerslife #amwriting

One Writing Software to Rule Them All (July IWSG)
July 3 question - What are your favorite writing processing (e.g. Word, Scrivener, yWriter, Dabble), writing apps, software, and tools? Why do you recommend them? And which one is your all time favorite that you cannot live without and use daily or at least whenever you write?

I discovered Scrivener some time ago, an
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#AuthorLife #IWSG #MicrosoftWord #WritingSoftware

The only thing I need as a writer is more time for writing. So I came up with a few ideas for how to make the day longer for the purposes of writing.

https://i-love-space.com/2024/06/05/iwsg-time/

#IWSG #writingcommunity #amwriting

June's poetry blog is a post on the healing power of poetry by Poetry Society of Indiana's first vice president Morgana Shea. #poetry #iwsg

http://kristinaseyes.com/exploring-poetry-the-healing-power-of-poetry/

I recently returned from a trip to D.C. to help advocate for NASA funding. I'll have more to say about that on my blog sometime next week.

But part of my trip got me thinking about the life of a writer, and that's my topic for this month's Insecure Writer's Support Group post.

https://i-love-space.com/2024/05/01/iwsg-real-reasons-vs-acceptable-reasons/

#IWSG #writingcommunity #space #science #NASA #FundNASA #PlanetarySociety

Monthly recap and updates. April was poetry month, and I had an author event. Flowers are starting to decorate my landscape. And the IWSG question this month is about writing distractions. #iwsg

http://kristinaseyes.com/april-2024-author-updates/