Shannon Lawrence

It's time for the September Insecure Writer's Support Group! Created by Alex J. Cavanaugh , the IWSG is a monthly gathering where writers share their insecurities and support each other through them. Anyone can join. Simply click on Alex's name and put your blog on the linky list. First of all, Happy 15th Anniversary, IWSG! The co-hosts this month are: Kate Larkindale , SE White , JS Pailly , Olga Godim , and Natalie Aguirre . Be sure to drop by and say hi. The optional question this month is: Do you have a favorite character archetype you tend to gravitate toward in your writing? I don't think so, so I'm skipping the question this month. I guess I'll just pop right into this month's insecurity: funding on Kickstarter . I had an opportunity to jump in with a great group of people called Learnable Peers , all of whom are doing a fall Kickstarter in darker genres, which meant giving myself a crash course on everything Kickstarter. It also meant my husband, who...

Yes, it's that time again! Time for another month of the Insecure Writer's Support Group. Created by Alex J. Cavanaugh , the IWSG is a blog hop that gives writers a space to air their insecurities and to provide support to other insecure writers. Anyone can participate. Simply click on Alex's name above and sign up. This month's co-hosts are: Jennifer Lane , Jenni Enzor , Renee Scattergood , Rebecca Douglass , Lynn Bradshaw , and Melissa Maygrove . The optional question this month is: When you began writing, what did you imagine your life as a writer would be like? Were you right, or has this experience presented you with some surprises along the way? I had the same misguided optimistic idea of  being a writer, thanks to the movies, that most people go in with. My first professional writer's conference took care of that pretty quickly. Now that I've seen the realities (you probably won't sell your first book right away, you likely won't be a millionaire)...