Greetings, Fictionistas!
Thanks to the fab few who joined in on our summer kick-off chat yesterday. It was great to see some familiar faces, as well as a few newbies in the small, but wonderfully engaged, crowd.
The best part of the event was that EVERYONE participated by sharing their summer goals, projects, and plans, as well as the potential challenges they would face in trying to get it all done.
Here are just a few of the things your fellow Fictionistas will be focusing on this summer:
Finishing a novel (or two)
Revising a novel
STARTING a novel
Developing a virtual masterclass
House hunting
Finding and joining an in-person writing group
Establishing a sustainable daily writing habit
Creating boundaries around that newly established habit
Completing research for a non-fiction project
Keeping the ball rolling on serialized fiction
Hosting a podcast
Writing X-men inspired fan fiction! 💜
Wrangling kids and maintaining work/family/creativity balance
Maintaining momentum on a new Substack publication
Dusting off and reinvigorating back burner projects
Carving out real time for the things we love doing (like writing fiction)
Writing more fiction
If you have your own summer goal to share, please drop it in the comments! We’d love to hear what you’re working on and provide you with a more robust cheering section.
The future of Fictionistas.
Add the end of the meeting, we spent some time discussing what Fictionistas was, is, and might become in the months ahead. We talked leadership, content strategies, and weighed the pros and cons of keeping it alive for our growing community of fiction writers and readers on Substack (and beyond.)
Obviously, the PROs won out.
Fictionistas is here to stay.
We’ll be doing some shuffling and delegating and restructuring behind the scenes with the goal of bolstering this publication’s reputation as a valuable resource for fiction writers at any stage of their creative journey.
If you have input, questions, or thoughts on the future on Fictionistas, feel free to leave a comment on this post, or reach out to us by email: fictionistas@substack.com
Thank you for your ongoing support and engagement. Please share this energizing replay with your fiction friends.
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Quick shout out to the fierce few who braved the Zoom waves to be with us yesterday.
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"Summer Dreams" Replay