Tag: #inspiration

• Notes for Nightmares

  My mother told me bedtime stories to send us to sleep. She kept telling them as we grew older, and the stories darker. She never meant to send us to bed with nightmares… not always. From the ring wraiths hunting us down, to the malevolent Nargun lurking to our door. The monsters outside might have…

  E. J. Dawson

  January 21, 2023

  #inspiration

  #authors, #creativity, #dreams, #inspiration, #nightmares, #notebook, #notes, #writers, #writing, #writingcommunity

• Great Expectations – Getting Feedback at Every Level

  Great Expectations; Getting Feedback at Every Level What to expect from the people who help your story become the best version of itself, and how you process that feedback.

  E. J. Dawson

  June 19, 2022

  On Writing

  #authors, #betareading, #creativity, #critiquepartners, #devediting, #editing, #inspiration, #selfpublishing, #writers, #Writerslife, #writingcommunity

• Not Every Idea is a Novel

  Not Every Idea is a Novel – short stories help you find the heart of your inspiration, the idea, and see if it is just an idea, or a novel. #writingtips #writers #amwriting #writerslife #shortstories #novels

  E. J. Dawson

  April 30, 2022

  #inspiration, On Writing

  #authors, #creativity, #inspiration, #writers, #Writerslife, #writingcommunity

• Worthiness of Dreams

  Worthiness of Dreams – My head is a strange place with big wolves inside who gnaw on the bones of my might. Who collapse this skeleton of dreams into splinters. What else did I deserve other than to be rejected? #writing #inspiration #writerslife #dreams

  E. J. Dawson

  February 11, 2022

  #inspiration

  #amwriting, #authors, #creativity, #dreams, #goals, #inspiration, #writer, #writers, #writingcommunity, writerslife

• 30 Days of Nano – Word Count

  30 Days of Nano – Mini-blog series; find more tips to surviving #Nanowrimo2021

  E. J. Dawson

  November 5, 2021

  #nanowrimo

  #authors, #inspiration, #writers, #writingcommunity, amwriting, writerslife, writing

• 30 Days of Nano

  Nano is here and if you don’t know what it is, its basically a competition against yourself to write fifty thousand words on a new book. Many people use this as a chance to just finish a novel, get one started, developing great writing habits, and you can do all of those things. This year…

  E. J. Dawson

  November 1, 2021

  #nanowrimo

  #authors, #book, #inspiration, #nano, #nanowrimo, #Nanowrimo2021, #writers, #writingcommunity

• Journeying Pains

  Journeying Pain Most writes say that their writing life is a journey and that it’s different for every writer. Ups and downs, versions of success, what they’re writing and how its published. So many different paths to take. But we have one thing in common: the doubt. The “what if” thoughts that are never or…

  E. J. Dawson

  August 28, 2021

  #inspiration, On Writing

  #authors, #creativity, #inspiration, #writers, #writingcommunity, writing

• Butterfly to a Snake

  Writing a whole novel, an honest over 70k full and complete manuscript, tears out your soul. But that doesn’t change that you wrote a whole book.

  E. J. Dawson

  February 12, 2021

  #inspiration

  #amwriting, #inspiration, #writers, #Writerscafe, #Writerslife, #writing, #writingcommunity

• The Wall

  The Wall – Reassessing Failure #inspiration #writers #keepwriting #writerslife #amwriting #writingcommunity

  E. J. Dawson

  January 8, 2021

  #inspiration

  #amwriting, #inspiration, #Writerslife, #writing, #writingcommunity

• Featured Poet Taia Dominque

  I have not been silent on my support of the Black Lives Matters movement and I’ve been doing that by one action alone; sharing and retweet the voices of those it affects most. Today some of those words were lost. A clear screen shot on Taia Dominique’s Twitter can be seen that she posted the…

  E. J. Dawson

  June 4, 2020

  Uncategorized

  #blackpoets, #blackwriters, #inspiration, #poems, #poetry, #poets, #PoetsofTwitter