Hello writerly friends. The year is half over already! Yikes. I want to thank the founder of IWSG, Alex J. Cavanaugh and all the admins who make this group the best place to share and work through your insecurities. Find the entire list here.
This month's optional question:
Is there a genre you haven't tried writing in yet that you really want to try? If so, do you plan on trying it?
Excellent question. I really, really intend to dabble in poetry. I have a book and so many scraps of paper. But it never seems like I have to time to really put my mind to it. I will. Someday, I will.
My writing time now is all going toward the second draft of my current WIP. The name of the series and the books revealed themselves also. Not sure about the series name.
I've been good on my exercising. 10,000 steps on most days except when it rains, which unfortunately, is pretty often. I don't mind the heat dome, but rain keeps me inside.
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I'm also promoting the Chocolatetown Bookfest coming in October. It's the first year I've managed to secure a spot. Registration opens and fills up within two hours. It's crazy.
I'm also busy planning the 2026 Pennwriters Annual Conference. We're extremely excited to have Chuck Wendig and Maria V. Snyder as our keynotes. We'll be in Lancaster, PA, next May. This month, we'll be settling the menu and collecting workshop proposals.
I enjoyed Dept Q on Netflix. The Accountant 2 was okay. Lots of funny stuff mixed in with the brutality. The Old Guard do is coming soon. I hope it's as good as the first one.
What genre do you want to try out? Are you okay in the summer heat? If it's summer where you are, that is. Anything entertaining you on the small or big screen?
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Some great guests for next year.
Fortunately, our house layout gives me a circle I can walk in when it's too hot or raining.
I don't think I have the right chops for poetry. Envious of those who can do it well.
I enjoyed Dept Q. too. It's great that you can write poetry. It's not for me, but I admire poets.
I really liked Accountant 2. Had to watch the first one before so I could remember what happened.
Ten thousand steps a day is good.
I'm looking forward to reading your poetry when you're ready to share it!
And I am so impressed by all you do with planning conferences and all the things you do for the writing community.
BTW - I also enjoyed Dept. Q. I hope they have a season 2. My hubs and I are working are way through Blindspot - new to us, old to the world, and it has fun moments.
I love poetry. Do I ever read it in collections? No. Should I? Probably. Because I love it. LOL!
Good luck with that second draft!
Have Dept Q on the To Watch list. We've been enjoying The Waterfront, also on Netflix.
I find the goal of 10K steps is a good one. I'm holding myself to it on days I don't swim a half a mile. On swimming days I'm happy as long as I reach half as many steps (or more).
Write the poetry when you have a minute. Then you can come back to it later for revisions (when you have time, ROFL). I hate heat, especially with humidity. I'm fine walking in the rain, or even better (except for the part about my aging body not liking it), running in the rain. Backpacking in the rain is not so much fun.
Ten thousand steps is impressive! I've dabbled in poetry, but never felt like it was ever good enough to do anything with. I once was in a critique group with some poetry writers, and they really inspired me. I hope you go for it with your poetry!
Poetry is fun to try, mine's awful but I try to make it funny and it suits me.
Poetry! Love it. There can never been enough of that.
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Good for you tackling poetry, Susan! I will add the upcoming Pennwriters Conference to our info on the IWSG. We don't have tv right now. Soon, I hope! 🤞 Renovation issues, but the end is in sight. Enjoy your summer!
I'm not watching much on either TV or movies. I do spend time poking through stuff on my computer and my phone. I get plenty of laughs from the stand up comedians of Dry Bar Comedy.
SciFi writers kick-buttocks. Why?
They have a sense of the ‘beyond
earth’ which whorizontalers ‘don’t
wanna. Not gonna. We’d prefer to
stay in our comfort zones’. Alas!!
1-outta-1 bites-the-dust, baby. J’eva
think O that, humanity, just like I did?
Lemme show you how much I love you:
🔜 Q: What am I gonna do in 7th Heaven for
centillions of eons of alt.reality with UFU
wanna, ya stunning wildflower?
A: The flight of ‘the Raww!kuss’ (my killer
starship) - 111ish killillion parsecs across
the universe; loving/serving you; picking-up
stowaways who think their subtle maneuver
goes without notice and, finally, touching-
down on the HUGE home world of KodexxII
where we can learn-to-play ‘NachoCheese
Dude’ and ‘O!Wah!Hoo!’ (et al) So the sheer
exponential on the Other Side is far beyond
what our brains can comprehend on earth.
Just meet me@RongWay café Upstairs for
some beers/savvy pretzels in the starry sky.
We’ll schmooze, cool shoes?? Cya soon...
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