Writers Lab: Notes on Progress

Good morning, Lab Coats, you Sweethearts of the Storybelly Lab. How is it Friday already? Happy Halloween! The homemade, unfettered, bare-bones (ha) Halloween of my childhood (and my children’s childhood) is my favorite holiday.

Continuing simple traditions, grandgirl #3’s first Halloween, trick-or-treating at Grandpa’s house. She is 14 years old today.

I’m going to plunge right in to this week’s Lab so the paywall is high up this week (and some weeks it’s all paywalled) so we can get right down to business.

“Business.” hmm. “Creativity” is more like it. So we can get right down to creativity.

But an announcement for everyone first, to say that our November “Second Sunday Live!” is happening on Nov. 9 at 11amET when we will have the pleasure of a Lab Coat sharing with us her New Book! I’m so excited and chuffed and delighted to help launch Jennifer’s new book (link is to book trailer).

If you are not yet a Lab Coat and want to be part of the fun (the writing, the sharing, the laughing, the music, the stories!), come join us in a fabulous writing community at Substack.

And now, some Zine catch-up stuff (Zines are arriving, and they are fabulous!); some encouragement and inspiration for same (including for me; I am slowly getting there); and the Google Meet link for Nov. 9’s Live.

Also: A Weekend Prompt for Zine-Makers, Dreamers, and Tinkerers:

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Published on October 31, 2025 06:06
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