Welcome to the Wednesday Writing Sprint.

This event happens one day per week. It’s when you dedicate the entire day strictly to writing. Try to turn off email, social media–anything that distracts you and just write.

The time can be spent outlining characters, plots, scenes, etc. or it can be spent using it for a writing marathon or getting caught up on freelance work. The focus is to simply devote more time to your writing.

Enjoy and share your progress throughout the day in comments.

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Welcome to Mayhem & Madness.

This event happens every Monday. It’s when you dedicate the entire day strictly to writing fiction. Try to turn off email, social media–anything that distracts you and just write.

The time can be spent outlining characters, plots, scenes, etc. or let your characters, plots and schemes run amuck and enjoy the Mayhem & Madness.

The focus is devote the day to your favorite work of fiction in progress.

Enjoy and share your progress throughout the day in comments.

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Welcome to the Wednesday Writing Sprint.

This event happens one day per week. It’s when you dedicate the entire day strictly to writing. Try to turn off email, social media–anything that distracts you and just write.

The time can be spent outlining characters, plots, scenes, etc. or it can be spent using it for a writing marathon or getting caught up on freelance work. The focus is to simply devote more time to your writing.

Enjoy and share your progress throughout the day in comments.

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Welcome to Mayhem & Madness.

This event happens every Monday. It’s when you dedicate the entire day strictly to writing fiction. Try to turn off email, social media–anything that distracts you and just write.

The time can be spent outlining characters, plots, scenes, etc. or let your characters, plots and schemes run amuck and enjoy the Mayhem & Madness.

The focus is devote the day to your favorite work of fiction in progress.

Enjoy and share your progress throughout the day in comments.

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In this edition of Freelance Friday I want to highlight freelance writer Angela Swanlund. Angela has been around the Internet for many years and published on many websites. Her best work has been for places like The Encyclopedia of Arkansas, where she did extensive research into the gruesome killing spree of Ronald Gene Simmons. She’s also been published in Cuckleburr Times and Ozark Farms and Neighbor Newspaper.

Angela is a prolific writer with a style that is uniquely hers; sometimes extremely serious, sometimes light and funny. No matter what topic Angela tackles she handles it with panache and professionalism.

Last year she did something almost unheard of in today’s society; she unplugged for an entire year. Yep, that’s right. She disconnected her phone service and her Internet service and devoted the entire year to writing her first full length novel. Actually, she went a bit overboard and it ended up being the length of two novels. She is now in the process of trimming it down and getting ready to send it off to publishers. She’s also begun working on her second novel. This one has been a bit difficult due to that fact that she’s contending with the Internet this year. She may have to unplug to see it’s completion.

Most writers would never dream of walking away from their freelance career for a year to pursue writing a novel. Many try to juggle the best of both worlds and end up frustrated in the process, never giving due diligence to either project. Angela is living proof that you can go off the grid, write a novel, and survive life without the digital age.

Many of us need the income we receive for our freelance work. Angela just buckled down and lived frugally for a year so the loss of income would not be such a strain. You have to decide which is more important; ordering pizza every week or getting your novel out.

When asked why she took such extreme measures, she admitted that self-control can be more difficult than actually unplugging. Without the tease of getting online for just a few minutes, she was able to focus her sole attention to her novel.

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Wednesday Writing Sprint

Welcome to the Wednesday Writing Sprint.

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Welcome to Mayhem & Madness.

This event happens every Monday. It’s when you dedicate the entire day strictly to writing fiction. Try to turn off email, social media–anything that distracts you and just write.

The time can be spent outlining characters, plots, scenes, etc. or let your characters, plots and schemes run amuck and enjoy the Mayhem & Madness.

The focus is devote the day to your favorite work of fiction in progress.

Enjoy and share your progress throughout the day in comments.

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Well my new section “Freelance Friday” is here and I’ve got nothing. But since it’s my blog I guess I can highlight myself and tell you a little about what’s in store for some upcoming features.

Mayhem & Madness: I’ve recently started a weekly event specifically for fiction writers called Monday Mayhem & Madness. This is a Monday event where writers can share what they are working on, what they’re putting their characters through (or their characters are putting them through), plots, schemes, frustrations–anything the fiction writer goes through and wants to share.

This event is to help fiction writers meet others through comments and camaraderie. It’s a lot of fun to share and mingle with other writers.

Wednesday Writing Sprint: This is also a weekly event but it’s for all writers–fiction, freelance, poets, etc. The scope of this event is to get as much writing accomplished in this one day as you possibly can. Turn off email, Twitter, whatever you use to network during the week and just ignore it for one day a week so you can concentrate on your writing.

Drop in each week for the Wednesday Writing Sprint and share what you’re working on. I know it’s a contradiction since we’re supposed to unplug–but it really is a great motivator to share with other writers.

And then of course, we have Freelance Friday. I’m not completely sure what I want to do with it yet. I do know since I love fiction and freelance, I want the best of both worlds here at The Scribe and I want all writers to feel welcome here.

Freelance Friday will have some guest posts from great freelance writers around the Internet. I don’t know how soon that will happen, but it’s in the plans. I could call this Fun Friday instead. Any thoughts?

I want The Scribe to be informative, but also a fun place for writers to hang out and share their passion.

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