— Mark Paxson
We started this blog around nine or ten months ago with an idea. We wanted to develop an on-line community of writers who would share their lessons and wisdom and support each other in the pursuit of creative magic.
Berthold and I started, Audrey joined us shortly thereafter. Then Richard jumped feet first into our video chats. Chuck Litka offered an occasional guest post and now is a full member of the blog able to post at will.
Yesterday, we recorded another video chat that will be posted soon. The topic: our greatest fears and grandest dreams as writers. What I found fascinating about the discussion was how much we each wanted to be part of a writing community. That idea played a part in our dreams.
It’s why we started this blog. And I’ll admit that I haven’t done as much with this blog as I would have liked. I wanted to put forward writing exercises to motivate people to participate. I have yet to do that. I started a Resources page, but haven’t touched it in months. I wanted to blog much more regularly here than I have.
Life gets in the way, you know.
We’re still here and enjoying our conversations and the opportunity to discuss this thing we all like to do.
But … it’s not a community without you. If you’re a writer and are interested in contributing posts or participating in our video chats, let us know. We really want to talk with other writers about their work, their process, their views on the creative life.
We want you. If you’re interested drop us a comment or shoot us an email at writinghelp2021@gmail.com.
Writers Supporting Writers 
Yes. Let’s talk and share. Let’s have fun.
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I’ll link to this post from my blog.
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Thank you!
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Read this from Audrey’s blog. What about the writers who would like to publish but are too lazy to put in the effort.,?
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Are you thinking traditional publishing, self-publishing, or both? These days, self-publishing is remarkably easy and cheap, but it depends on your objective also. If you want a big audience, you’re going to have to put a lot of effort into marketing and promotion. If you just want to publish and have your book out there, it’s not a major effort. But traditional publishing is a whole different thing.
What about “the effort” keeps you away from publishing?
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Listening to our chats might be inspiring. Or intimidating. As Mark says, self-publishing with modest expectations is relatively easy and cheap. Being part of a congenial group of writers is helpful. I belonged to a critique group through writing and publishing 5 novels.
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I’ve got too many venues for peddling my sophomoric efforts as it is.
What would be nice, perhaps, is to have a “CritiqueCorner” where a writing piece is dissected to death. The mediocre the bad and the smugly.
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Vivisection of written works! Could get grisly. These would be pieces contributed by their authors, I’m guessing. That might be worth trying.
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