A new month is upon us, the year is rushing by and we have so much to accomplish. It is interesting that this month has several literary celebrations - Get Caught Reading Month, Mystery Month, National Share a Story Month and Latino Book Month. The first one is easily...
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Wordsmith’s Collective Thursday – Giving Back to the Writing Community
Today is National Encourage a Young Writer Day. As writers and authors we have been encouraged, mentored and supported by the writing community during our writing career. I feel it is important to give back and help new and novice writers reach their potential....
Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – Our Romance Anthology is Here
Ever-After, Volume One: Romance Anthology Our romance anthology launched on 1st April, and you have such a diverse choice of stories to choose from - each one is unique to the author. My story is called Soul's Cruise - I hope you like it. ❤ contemporary❤ paranormal❤...
Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – Bibliomania Day
So this week we will celebrate 'our' day, readers of the world. The 20th March is Bibliomania Day The History of Bibliomania Day It started in the 1950s, as many people from Europe, especially England, were afflicted by what they called “bibliomania.” Book collecting...
Wordsmith’s Collective Thursday – Interview with Sara Furlong
https://storyay.ca Can you tell us about your new project? Storyay is a revolutionary storytelling experience that delivers personalized, interactive letters straight to your home mailbox. With high-quality writing, beautiful illustrations, and stories that bring a...
Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – Short Story – A Reflection of Life
As many of you know, I have a passion for prompts to spark my writing Muse. The last writers meeting's homework was to write a story using these parameters: Setting: A Haunted house, Character: A police officer, Theme: Friendship POV: An inanimate object. This is my...
Wordsmith’s Collective Thursday – National Short Story Day
This week we will celebrate National Short Story Day on the 21st - the shortest day of the year! So grab a notebook and pen this winter solstice and enjoy some calm within the pre-Christmas chaos and write a short story. There are no hard and fast rules as to the...
Bibliophile’s Collective Tuesday – My Year in Books
I always enjoy finding out what my reading year looked like. Goodreads creates a graphic of your year's reading and tis is my 2024 (although I will probably finish up with one more to the mix). You can find it here The number of pages I read was cool: 11,620 but this...
Wordsmith’s Collective Thursday – Writing Deadlines Good, or Bad?
Many of us have been scrambling to meet our November writing challenge deadline, no matter which challenge platform we participated on, 30th November is the completion date. There are two schools of thought about writing deadlines: a) an excellent resource b) creates...
