💬 Intros + tell us where you're at with your writing?
Introduce yourself to other SMLTA writers and readers and tell us about your writing fears, troubles, stresses or joys, wins, and successes!
Let’s chat about writing and cheer each other on!
Tell the Send My Love to Anyone community what is going on with your writing?
Do you have a project planned for 2025?
Do you have an old project you’re trying to pull out of the drawer?
Something else?
What are your fears, troubles, stresses or joys, wins, and successes in terms of your writing?
Share in the comments!
I started Send My Love to Anyone January 2021 when I was suffering from severe writer’s block. I had a book on contract, and I was really stuck. So I started a newsletter thinking it would force me to write, which did! But better than doing my own writing it allowed me to share the work of others which kept me going and inspired.
And I'm happy to say I finished the book which was published in September 2023.
Now I’m working on a new project, a novel, and I’m feeling the same panic that I did when I was working on my story collection. For me, the fear of a new project just never goes away.
My new attempt to deal with it is to just commit to ten minutes a day. That’s all I have to do. Ten minutes a day. Hopefully I’ll do more, but I will have reached my goal if I just interact with my novel ten minutes a day.
I tried doing word counts before, and it never worked for me, so I’m hoping this approach will get me some movement without being overly structured.
What works for you?
for the past few months I've been obsessively poking away at a long poem entitled desire,.a footnote, sparked by my return to dating apps at 61. it is turning into a poem-essay about radical love, relationship anarchy & cherished friends.