Hi Everyone, I met Reko at a retreat and he suggested it might be valuable to connect with a few of you in this writing club. Thank you Reko for the suggestion and the opportunity. I have just completed a draft of my second book called The Worth and Work of Life. I am passing it around to a few friends and trusted colleagues before I work with my editor and do some deep editing. Since I don't know any of you there is no pressure to look at it. However if you are wired this way, and would like to contribute, I would love to have some feedback. I want to help the reader see afresh the Worth of Life and to rediscover the common Work of Life. When understood, accepted, and partnered with, this leads to maturity, wholeness, and a beauty as your unique DNA will be realized and released. This will also help you, and us as a society, rise above the poor worldviews and the incomplete and false narratives we have floating around us. For feedback here are a couple of question I have been pondering. I do not want to be ideological offensive and yet I have attempted to tackle some of the hard things our society is wrestling with. So questions: Is there some topics, stories, or specific language, I need to reclarify, remove, or rewrite? Does it read well and flow well or do i need to ....... (thoughts)? Any others comments you think might be valuable for me? Thank you everyone. Again no pressure. Just putting this out there. And finally thank you again Reko. Hope to see you in person here soon.

I am often hearing from writers how they set time aside to write and can't find the inspiration. I used to get stuck here all the time. I wrote an essay on how I broke that pattern and can now write for several hours every week and never run out of things to write about. https://open.substack.com/pub/rekovitae/p/how-to-write-without-blocks?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=54f5m2

I know some of you are writing stories. Possibly even short stories. @Shae Couture @Izzy Shafey @Jeff Roberts @Jonathon Dierks @Tara Ewald I just started using Substack which is a great way to publish your writing to an audience. You can post full essays or articles or stories. They also have a paid subscription like Patreon. I know @Shae Couture has a 1000 story ideas that may never make it to be a full novel or series, but this is another option for building a paying fan base that will buy your books or pay to read short stories as you continue to write. Strategies like this can start to make your work more tangible. And draw people in as eager readers. You can add tiers and each tier gets access to different things. Maybe you post the first story in a series for free and the sequels are in the paid tier etc. However you structure your substack subscription, you can get your work out there, even unfinished ideas, leave cliff hangers, get readers wanting more. Have a tier where you post story ideas that you arent going to write. Make people pay for your creativity. Let me know what other ideas you have around this. How could you leverage tools like this to make your writing start to work for you?