Last month as you may be aware I threw the doors of the passing place wide open to a series of guest posts from indie writers of all kith and kin. The brief i gave them all was simple, write me a blog post about whatever you wish, be it your writing, about writing, random thoughts, something insightful, or just a few jotted notes about whatever…
What I received back and let out into the world was a mixed bag of wonderfulness, which got interspersed with a few waffling’s of my own. Some were inspiring, some illuminating and a few were purest gold… if you missed any then here is a complete list of all of Indie Aprils posts. Some may be of interest… But none of them will change your life significantly…. or will they? If nothing else they will introduce you to some indie authors you may never have heard of, which is never a bad thing.
- A Tantalizing of Tantamount, with Meredith Debonnaire
- The devil made me do it, by Mark Hayes
- Writing around COVID , by K R Baucherel
- POV matters… it does, by C G Hatton
- Strange Connections, by Mark Hayes
- Welcome to Sinneport, by Nils Nisse Visser
- Hipster crisis, by J L Walton
- Podcast, self-awareness and publishing, by Mark Hayes
- Why your day job could be good for your creativity, by Amy Wilson
- Speculating on Emi, by Mark Hayes
- All about Hemlock Soames in six questions, by S M Kimmett
- First world problems, by Andy Hill
- Indie April Harvey online, by a gathering of the collective noun Harveys
- Harvey Live, podcast, and the writers list, by Mark Hayes
- Choosing names for your characters, by Madeleine Holly-Rosing
- What is modern druidry, by Nimue Brown
- The care and feeding of authors while practising social distancing, by Karen J Carlisle
Some of these posts were windows into the minds and lives of different writers, (the management excepts no responsibility for this). Some in to the worlds they create, and many in to the process of writing itself. Or just lessons in life, art and screaming into the void in the constant fear that it will never hear you yet somehow been more terrified when it answers you back and you realise it was listening all along and no it wants to have its say…. (okay maybe that last one is just me)
My thanks to all who took part, be it the writers, those who reposted tweets, or facebook posts, those who were going to contribute but didn’t get the time but still cheered it on form the side liens and to the many many readers as this was the most successful Indie April so far, at least in terms of the blogs…