IWSG

*****  PHOTO:  Kai Charles

It is the first Wednesday of the month and time for the  Insecure Writer's Support Group to offer support~   IWSG is the thoughtful idea of Alex Cavanaugh!  If you want to join click on IWSG and sign up~

"Time to release our fears to the world – or offer encouragement to those who are feeling neurotic. If you’d like to join us, click on the tab above and sign up. We post the first Wednesday of every month. I encourage everyone to visit at least a dozen new blogs and leave a comment. Your words might be the encouragement someone needs"

Thank you Alex! 

Last night my daughter found out the theme for her winter guard show,  'On Thin Ice'.  

Maybe this could be analogy of the writing process?!

We as writers, weather many storms.  We have to brace our doubt, dance with our muse and continue onward in a blinding storm, to make our story a  reality.   I think all art forms know how crazy the weather can be.    It doesn't matter if you write books, stories, songs, pen poetry, create an artist's window.  Art is a venture on thin ice.  Will anyone get my view, will anyone like it, will I be able to reach people-connect with them?!  Will they like my characters, my words, my vision?!   We hope we aren't blinded by our passion and rejection(you know that glacier that sweeps over you).  We try to prepare, study, ask others to read our work, take criticism and continue on-as we brace more storms.

   We are like those frozen snowflakes-unique and hoping to create something vivid and memorable-like the storm of 99.  (it is just an example-stop thinking what storm-stop it!)


Sometimes we are just twirling in the wind, hanging on for dear life as the big adventure swirls around us.  We see other succeed and we are happy for them, yet we haven't.  We have to remind each other-they also weathered many storms of rejection.  Each storm you face is a badge of courage. You are a survivor-still willing to skate on more thin ice and face more uncertain weather.  We have to be like ice-fragile yet strong!

Our friends are like the weatherman or woman offering us hope~   Remember everyone has a beginning and storms to share.  WE all have to brave the ice before we can bask in the sun!

So keep chipping away at the ice and remember sometimes we writers just have to take a break and chill!

Sorry for the bad pun and the winter references, but seriously we all need to walk
 away, make time to chill!  Brain freeze is the same as writer's block-put the ice cream down!

Yes, self publishing is like the weather forecast-filled with hope!

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

– Pietro Aretino

“Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection.)”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods