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Love my girls! #beautifulwritersvirtualretreat 💜Repost… @k_ambrosia5 loved meeting with my Aussie mate @christine_denny_author every other week to workshop our writing! She sparks the ‘JOY” - which is appropriate given that she is, after all, THE JOYMAKER (check out her spunk, her skill, and her energy in this dance video - she is one of Australia’s best-known tap instructors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnlUlFg8Pr0). I hate dancing but somehow every time I’m on a call with her I find myself being all kinds of goofy - we bust out in dance moves, we sing little ditties “what to do, what to do” and we laugh! We also do our fair share of cursing.

I hadn’t realized how much I’ve needed other writers around me. When you aren’t a ‘known’ writer people tend to forget about this time-intensive, often tear-producing, hopefully transformative thing you are trying your best to birth into the world.

People seldom ask about how the book is going, or what chapter you’re on, or if you ever figured out how to reorganize that section that was giving you trouble - which is why it is SO important to find yourself a writing group where people not only ask these questions but genuinely care about your answers. Groups where people will spend 15 or 20 minutes helping you find that one right word or pointing out gaps in your narrative. @astrusienski @sherijeanbrla and AJ thank you for being some of those people for me.

@linda_sivertsen I will forever be grateful you helped me find Christine, Christine A. Messier I will be forever grateful you helped me find Linda, @yourcreativegroove I will be forever grateful you helped me find my incredible editor @hannar2e2 .

Today Christine gave me some tough love - “quit outsourcing your brilliance. It is actually annoying me.” LOL. This was in response to me constantly quoting and referencing other people whose work I love. Christine said, “I’m buying your book, not their bloody book” (or something to that effect). And she’s right - I don’t know why I’m not trusting my voice enough to carry the story, but I bloody will start now. ...