How are all my followers keeping to their writing resolutions (if indeed you made any)?
Having posted my plan/resolutions earlier this month, I thought I would update you all on how I am doing with keeping to mine.
On the 1st of January I started off well with a poem entitled New Year (49 words) and then had a great couple of Creative Writing sessions at Cleckheaton Library with Saturday 7 January spent organising my plot plan and chapter headings in order to work towards finishing my current WIP, 2,414 words written on Saturday 14 January and 2,517 written on Saturday 21 January. I then followed this on Sunday 22 January with a short psychological horror story, currently entitled Remember which at 1,094 words brings my total for January so far to 6,074. This far exceeds the 1,750 for the month I challenged myself. Now I just have to send at least one competition entry and one agent/publisher submission and I will have hit my January target.
I would love to hear how my followers are doing, so please drop me a comment with your successes, or otherwise, because it is great to hear from others, which I believe helps to encourage us all.
With this in mind, I thought I would share the latest One Room newsletter with handy hints for inspiration and recommendations for writing books:
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What We
Talk About When We Talk About a Practice: "Six
keys to a lifelong practice from Haruki Murakami..." | OneRoom
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Inside the
Practice — Writing: "It's kind of embarrassing
to admit, but I used to think a regular writing practice was
writing one thing every 2 weeks or something. It's really
intimidating. Particularly when you don't believe that the things
going on inside of you don't have any merit or could be valuable to
somebody else..." | OneRoom Blog
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"Writers
use literature as a mirror held up to the world."
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"When
love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
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“Study
the tricks of the writers who have arrived. They have mastered
the tools with which you are cutting your fingers. They are doing
things, and their work bears the internal evidence of how it is
done. Don't wait for some good Samaritan to tell you, but dig it
out for yourself."
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Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Rowan is the author of the novel Harmless Like You. She
has a BA from Columbia University, and MFA from the UW-Madison. Her
short work has appeared in Granta, the Guardian, Guernica, and NPR'S
Selected Shorts, among other places. She has received residencies
from the Gladstone Library and Hedgebrook.
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If
you're interested in working with Rowan, we suggest applying soon.
There are only 13
spots left,
and our groups have been filling up fast.
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Caroline Goodwin
Caroline has published four poetry
chapbooks and one full-length collection, Trapline (2013).
Her next collection, The
Paper Tree, is forthcoming in April 2017 from Big Yes
Press. She attended Stanford in 1999 as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in
poetry, served as the first Poet Laureate of San Mateo County,
CA from 2014 - 2016, and currently teaches at Stanford Continuing
Studies and California College of the Arts in Oakland.
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There
are only 15 spots
left in Caroline's group, so apply soon!
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