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It ain’t easy being a writer. Name a stumbling block and every writer eventually encounters it. No matter how supportive our families, how great our friends, how detailed our long-range plan for success, some times we need to crawl out of our own lives and hear the music of the world turning.
Susan Wittig Albert recognized that in 1997, when she founded Story Circle Network. Yes, she’s the same S.W.A. who writes three wonderful mystery series—China Bayles, Robin Paige Victorian mysteries, and Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter. Story Circle Network is one of her many other hats.
SCN started small, with a story circle in Austin, Texas. A group of women got together to explore writing about their real lives. Pretty soon, even the state of Texas wasn’t big enough for them.
This weekend, rather than try to list how the Story Circle Network has grown in the past eleven years, we’re sending you into the Network itself. If you’re interested in writing about your own life, or you have a relative you want to encourage to write about her life, or you’d like to read about other women’s lives, or you’re looking for new books to read, or maybe for neat holiday gifts for writer friends, you’ll find it all at the SCN.
Interested in writing about your life? Want to read about other women’s lives? Want to learn more about writing from real life? How about a great gift for a writer? This address http://www.storycircle.org/index.html takes you to the index for the Story Circle Network site. Scroll down the menu bar at the left of the screen, or use the other addresses below to go to some of the more popular features that SCN offers.
Connect to a terrific blog about life writing. http://www.storycircle.typepad.com/
Find a treasure house of quotes by women, about women, life, and writing. http://www.storycircle.org/quotes/
Do you know a woman over 65, who has a life story to tell? Go to http://www.storycircle.org/owlcircle/ to find out how Story Circle can help her tell that story.
Looking for a good book? Try http://www.storycirclebookreviews.org/ Their book review section includes mysteries, and they are always looking for new reviewers for both fiction and non-fiction.Celebrate our lives a women and as writers. Write, read, quote, give one another gifts.
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Writing quote for the week:
You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.
~Sarah Ban Breathnach, author
