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February 21, 2021
Winter Writing Festival – Week 6 Check In
Welcome to the Week 6 check in!!
We’re fast rolling to a close on this year’s festival. How are you doing? How was this week for you?
We have only one more week to go!!!
Leave a comment below about your progress for this last week. Leaving a comment also puts you in the running to win one of today’s Check-In prizes!!!
A few bits of business before we move on:
1. CHAT ROOM SPRINTS – ALL ARE WELCOME!
If you’ve been taking part in the WWF, by now you’ve like...
February 14, 2021
Winter Writing Festival – Week 5 Check In
Welcome to the Week 5 check in!!
How was your week and your progress toward your WWF goals?
Leave a comment below about your progress. Leaving a comment also puts you in the running to win some of today’s Check-In prizes!!!
A few bits of business before we move on:
1. CHAT ROOM SPRINTS – ALL ARE WELCOME!
If you’ve been taking part in the WWF, by now you’ve likely joined a sprint or two. Our CHAT ROOM is open, with sprints available at different times. If you haven’t joine...
February 10, 2021
It’s All About the Brain
We know the brain controls everything, including our thoughts and emotions—and our typing fingers. Other than clicking our seatbelts and wearing our bike helmets, though, we usually don’t think about ways to take care of the brain. But the brain has needs. For one thing, it loves water and must be well hydrated to serve us efficiently. It also needs good quality food to keep producing chemicals that work to store memories and create plots, while it simultaneously makes sure your heart pumps blo...
February 7, 2021
Winter Writing Festival – Week 4 Check in
It’s Week 4 and time to check in again. Put a comment below to let us know how you’re doing with your goals and your dreams and to make yourself eligible for the prizes listed below. This is the place to cheer on and be cheered on, to brag and to commiserate. Despite the fact that writing is a solitary occupation, we all need to join together with our comrades in this writing business for mutual prais...
January 31, 2021
Winter Writing Festival – Week 3 Check In
Welcome to the Week 3 check in!!
How was your week and your progress toward your WWF goals?
Leave a comment below about your progress. Leaving a comment also puts you in the running to win some of today’s Check-In prizes!!!
A few bits of business before we move on:
1. CHAT ROOM SPRINTS – ALL ARE WELCOME!
If you haven’t had a chance to join us yet, what are you waiting for?! Our CHAT ROOM is open, with sprints available at different times. The sprints...
January 29, 2021
What’s Your Best System?
When writers talk about their systems, they’re usually referring to their writing system—Story Grid, Story Magic, Three-Act Structure, Save the Cat, and so forth. But I’m talking about productivity systems. Pantser or Plotter, the systems work. Here are three I’ve used and have come back to several times.
Book in a Week (BIAW): Thanks to April Kihlstrom, the author who popularized this system. I took a workshop with April over 15 years ago, and it was a real gift. In this system, you carve out ...
January 24, 2021
Winter Writing Festival – Week 2 Check In
Woohoo!!! It’s week 2!
How are you doing? Are you on target to meet your goal?
Chime in below and let us know what’s what because, ladies and gentlemen . . . it’s check-in time!!!
Leave a comment below about your progress. Not only do we want to cheer you on, but leaving a comment will put you in the running to win some of today’s Check-In prizes!!!! (See info on the goodies you could win, below!!)
A few bits of business before we move on:
1. CHAT ROOM SPR...
January 17, 2021
Winter Writing Festival – Week 1 Check In
The Eleventh Annual Ruby Slippered Sisterhood Winter Writing Festival is here and off to a great start! Join us today and let us know how you’re doing, meeting your goals and enjoying fellowship with other writers!
We’ve completed our FIRST FULL WEEK, so today it’s check-in time!
Leave a quick comment about your progress so far. Not only do we want to cheer you on, but leaving a comment will put you in the running to win some of today’s Check-In prizes!!!! (See info on SWAG you could w...
Mr. Approach, Meet Ms. Avoidance
You’re pushing a cart through the supermarket or driving a car full of kids to their softball game, but the characters talking in your head won’t stop demanding attention. You can’t wait for Saturday afternoon or the next write-in with your online group when you’ll finally have a couple of hours to make some headway on your manuscript.
When the time arrives, though, your thoughts take off every which way. You need to return your dad’s call. You meant to order flowers for your sick friend. You ca...
January 10, 2021
Welcome to the 11th Annual Winter Writing Festival!
Let’s do this, writer friends! To get your BONUS point for joining, add a comment here in which you:
1) define how *you personally* will earn your Festival “points”
and
2) declare your commitment to earning 50 points by March 1st, 2021. (Further details on goal-setting follow below).
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WHAT IS THE WINTER WRITING FESTIVAL???
For those who haven’t been with us for the WWF before, ...
