Insecure Writer's Support Group: May 2013

Wow!  We made it through April already!  Now it's the first Wednesday of May, and that means it's time for the next meeting of the Insecure Writer's Support Group!  Thanks to Ninja Captain Alex J. Cavanaugh for creating this awesome support system for writers who need encouragement from time to time.  This group is clearly an enormous success, because Alex now needs to recruit helpers to assist him in getting through the posts.  This month, the fabulous co-hosts are Lynda R. Young, Mark Koopmans, and Rachna Chhabria. Best of luck to the co-hosts!

Now that we're past the April A-Z Challenge, I have this question of "Now what?" I notice I always experience that sense of angst after completing a big project. That momentary lack of direction can make anyone feel insecure, but it can also be viewed as an opportunity to do something big.

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Not that I'm necessarily changing direction entirely.  I'm considering self-publishing Adam's Apple, my A-Z Challenge story, on Amazon (thanks to Yolanda Renee for already encouraging me to do so!).  I'd like to add in some additional scenes and a couple little side stories to flesh things out.  I'm not sure how long this process will take, but that's definitely one thing I can start working on right away.

I also have a few other writing projects to tackle (including a half-finished novel and three novel rough drafts that desperately need to be revised).  So perhaps it's not a matter of "What now?" so much as it's a matter of "What first?"  As a writer, I suppose that isn't a bad problem to have.