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This week Sam Kimberle gives the Stop Writing Alone community an update on all of the changes on Medium.com for writers. What are curator looking for? What Publications are seeking submissions? What Facebook groups should writers be members of? These questions and more are answered, before Nicole and Sam share a very special announcement concerning a Spring Writing Retreat!
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVER AFTER SPRING WRITING RETREAT with Nicole Rivera & Sam Kimberle, follow this link https://mailchi.mp/898c01af51e2/everafter2020
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SAM’S BOOK CLUB [email protected]
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When you find a group of people who lift you up on a daily basis, it is important to share their awesome. Here are links to the women in Nicole’s Mastermind group (currently going by the name The Voxer Vixens!).
Nicole includes one final bonus episode for season one of Stop Writing Alone to tell the story of the importance of the strange and powerful closeness that we develop in our writing group relationships.
Stop Writing Alone is one year old! After a brief celebration, Nicole discusses the strong community lessons we learn from geese!
Want to be one of Nicole’s first coaching clients? Write her an email at [email protected] with the Subject Line: I Want In! In the email tell Nicole why you’d like to jump on this opportunity!
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Places to connect to the STOP WRITING ALONE community and introduce yourself:
The EVERYONE CAN PODCAST crew. Here’s a list of podcasts made by my classmates coming out of Cathy Heller’s ECP course. This is one inspiring, creative, and informative bunch:
And our teacher…
Writing contests and competitions offer a lot of different quantifiable prizes for the winners, but what “wins” can all participants hope to gather. As Nicole participates in the current NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge 2020, she can think of nothing else! This week she discusses how committing to a writing competition can help writers experience the constraints and demands of a professional writing life.
Want to be one of Nicole’s first coaching clients? Write her an email at [email protected] with the Subject Line: I Want In! In the email tell Nicole why you’d like to jump on this opportunity!
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Places to connect to the STOP WRITING ALONE community and introduce yourself:
The EVERYONE CAN PODCAST crew. Here’s a list of podcasts made by my classmates coming out of Cathy Heller’s ECP course. This is one inspiring, creative, and informative bunch:
And our teacher…
The world is in need of strong, intelligent voices. Should those voices be wasted on fiction? Should writers be spending their hours in more important pursuits than playing make believe on the page? This week Nicole addresses the question of whether or not writers are wasting their time when they write fiction. She sites research that underscores the magnitude of fiction’s impact on our society and celebrates its small victories as well. This episode doesn’t ask if your story matters, it tells you WHY it does, so listen, then GO WRITE!
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Places to connect to the STOP WRITING ALONE community and introduce yourself:
The EVERYONE CAN PODCAST crew. Here’s a list of podcasts made by my classmates coming out of Cathy Heller’s ECP course. This is one inspiring, creative, and informative bunch:
And our teacher…
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it's done. It's that easy, and that hard.” - Neil Gaiman @neilhimself
This week Nicole’s mind is on action — the power of it, and the conflicting nature of its simplicity and impossibility. “Just DO it!” Nike tells us and it IS, in fact that simple, except when it isn’t. A chat about the importance of taking action -- even messy action -- and the secret to sustaining it in order to reach all of your goals.
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Places to connect to the STOP WRITING ALONE community and introduce yourself:
The EVERYONE CAN PODCAST crew. Here’s a list of podcasts made by my classmates coming out of Cathy Heller’s ECP course. This is one inspiring, creative, and informative bunch:
And our teacher…
In 2001, Ray Bradbury said, “If you can write one short story a week—it doesn’t matter what the quality is to start, but at least you’re practicing, and at the end of the year you have 52 short stories, and I defy you to write 52 bad ones. Can’t be done.” This year Nicole invites the Stop Writing Alone community to the #SWAP52Club where she will provide one writing prompt or exercise per week to help us all write 52 stories in the 52 weeks of 2020!
This episode was sponsored by Dianna Gunn and Business for Authors https://www.businessforauthors.com/
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Places to connect to the STOP WRITING ALONE community and introduce yourself:
The EVERYONE CAN PODCAST crew. Here’s a list of podcasts made by my classmates coming out of Cathy Heller’s ECP course. This is one inspiring, creative, and informative bunch:
And our teacher…
This week Nicole shares updates from her guests Jeff Goings (episode 13) and Sam Kimberle (episode 24) -- what they did with the rest of their 2019, and what they're planning to do next.
This episode was sponsored by Dianna Gunn and Business for Authors https://www.businessforauthors.com/
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Places to connect to the STOP WRITING ALONE community and introduce yourself:
The EVERYONE CAN PODCAST crew. Here’s a list of podcasts made by my classmates coming out of Cathy Heller’s ECP course. This is one inspiring, creative, and informative bunch:
And our teacher…
This week Nicole discusses why aspiring writers need to quit before they ring in the new year. The discussion is happening all over the internet #writingcommunity: people need to stop calling themselves “an aspiring writer”! Nicole explains how she quit and challenges the Stop Writing Alone Community to find the “aspiring writers” in their life and show them why and how they need to quit aspiring.
This episode was sponsored by Dianna Gunn and Business for Authors https://www.businessforauthors.com/
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Places to connect to the STOP WRITING ALONE community and introduce yourself:
The EVERYONE CAN PODCAST crew. Here’s a list of podcasts made by my classmates coming out of Cathy Heller’s ECP course. This is one inspiring, creative, and informative bunch:
And our teacher…
As the year comes to a close, Nicole reached out to Pauline Wiles to see what she’s been up to since Episode 11 of the Stop Writing Alone podcast. In the episode Nicole and Pauline talk about pivoting, building author websites, Pauline’s upcoming free website building challenge for writers, and more!
This episode was sponsored by Dianna Gunn and Business for Authors https://www.businessforauthors.com/
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Places to connect to the STOP WRITING ALONE community and introduce yourself:
The EVERYONE CAN PODCAST crew. Here’s a list of podcasts made by my classmates coming out of Cathy Heller’s ECP course. This is one inspiring, creative, and informative bunch:
And our teacher…
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