Welcome to the first Wednesday of the month. You know what that means! It's time to let our insecurities hang out. Yep, it's the Insecure Writer's Support Group blog hop. If you're a writer at any stage of career, I highly recommend this blog hop as a way to connect with other writers for support, sympathy, ideas, and networking. If you're a reader, it's a great way to peek behind the curtain of a writing life.
Our Twitter handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG. The awesome co-hosts for the August 7 posting of the IWSG are Feather Stone, Kim Lajevardi, Diedre Knight, C. Lee McKenzie, and Sarah - The Faux Fountain Pen!
August 7 question - Do you use AI in your writing and if so how? Do you use it for your posts? Incorporate it into your stories? Use it for research? Audio?
It's been a roller coaster!
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I'm tired of talking about AI right now. If you want to see what I've already said about it, you can find it here, here, and here. The short version: there are ethical issues to sort out and I'm not interested for the most part right now, but may be open to it at another time.
So, instead, let me share my big writing news:
I FINISHED MY SERIES!
The Menopausal Superhero Series has been a ten year journey in the creation of five novels, two novellas, and a collection of shorts (and an omnibus edition!)
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| The series, where it's stood since 2021 |
It's been a roller coaster!
- and the rebrand there.
- There was that time I had a book launch party with no books.
- And that time I had to do a complete revise and resubmit because I tried to rush and the book wasn't ready.
- Then there was getting back in after a two-year hiatus while the publishing drama worked itself out.
- Finally there was writing the series ender, a whole new level of writing challenge, especially for a pantser like me.
But here I am, ten years later and I've turned in the final book and can expect publication in summer 2025! I can't wait for y'all to see it. I'm feeling good about my ending.
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| Pumpkin is proud of me, too. |
So, what am I doing now? Celebrating!
And nerd that I am, I'm celebrating by writing something entirely new, my first foray into romance. Watch this space for more :-)
Congrats on finishing your series. It's a huge accomplishment. Good luck writing something new.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much! I'm writing a romance novella while I decide which of my back burner projects to pick up next.
DeleteWoo Hoo! Congrats on finishing your series!! That's an AMAZING accomplishment!!
ReplyDeleteBest of luck with the new project! Hope you're enjoying writing it!
So far it's been a blast!
DeleteCongrats! I'm lifting a glass—coffee cup—to you. Bask. You've earned it.
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Raising my glass of water (too late in the day for me to have more coffee) back to you!
DeleteCongrats on finishing your series! Quite an accomplishment. And only because the word came up in another post today: In Dr. Seuss's (Theodore Geisel's) 1950 composition of whimsy, If I Ran the Zoo, we have what seems to be the first occurrence of nerd in print
ReplyDeleteNeat!
DeleteHUGE CONGRATS!!!! I'm so proud of you! Once the last book is published, I'll have to get a set of the entire series from you. Autographed, of course! :)
ReplyDeleteThat would be fabulous!
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