Comments for Kate Meadows Writing & Editing

Comment on What’s Your Number-One Writing Goal for 2024? by dotmarketingsd

dotmarketingsd — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 02:34:55 +0000

In reply to Eva Spencer. Thanks for your kind words, Eva. I'm glad the emails and content you're receiving are valuable!

Comment on What’s Your Number-One Writing Goal for 2024? by Eva Spencer

Eva Spencer — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 09:21:28 +0000

Hello, Kate,
Your encouragement is the most important factor inside my writer’s mind, thank you!!!
My #1 goal for 2024 is to complete my life story
This project will be in the form of Script for filmmaking
Your e-mails & suggestions are always welcome
I actually wait for them every day with anticipation!!!
Take care,
Eva

Comment on Use Lists to Power Your Writing by Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:24:03 +0000

The closest thing to any kind of pre-writing I do (at least in fiction) is a fuzziliy-formed “shopping list” of scenes I’ll need, which in itself, is edited and added to as the book goes along. Anything more concrete turns into an excuse for procrastination.

Comment on Is My Writing Good Enough? by jerry bellune

jerry bellune — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 19:41:21 +0000

Annia: It’s hard to believe you are writing so well and not yet old enough to vote.
I went into the US Army at your age because I, too, wanted to be a writer and figured the army experience would give me something worthwhile to write about.
It also gave me time when we weren’t drilling or in class or on the rifle range to read the work of many other writers. I still read every day. You should do it, too.
After the army, I lucked into a newspaper job and spend the next 60 years reporting, writing, editing, coaching other writers and teaching college students to write.
It has been a wonderful life.
I encourage you to:
1. Write every day. Set a goal and stick to it. I’m in my 80s and still write every day.
2. Seize every opportunity that comes your way. Journalism took me to Washington, New York, California, Ukraine, the Middle East and other foreign shores where fascinating people became friends. It also introduced me to my wife, an excellent writer and editor who proof reads my stuff.
3. Develop a thick skin and fighting spirit. Always think positively. You will experience your share of disappointments, rejections, editors who need a course in bedside manner 101, etc.
Illegitimi non carborundum. They will try to grind you down. But you have already discovered your purpose in life. You are way ahead of most people. Be grateful. Exercise your gifts for your readers.

Comment on Follow the Thread: Writing as an Act of Faith by Kate Meadows

Kate Meadows — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 23:00:24 +0000

In reply to Jo-Anne Kerr. This is quite fascinating, Jo-Anne, and it renews my belief yet again that "following the thread" is not ever a waste of time. It is scary, yes, but so often it is that act of faith that lies between where we are in the moment and where the writing wants us to be. Thank you for sharing this, and thanks so much for reading!

Comment on Follow the Thread: Writing as an Act of Faith by Jo-Anne Kerr

Jo-Anne Kerr — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 22:27:53 +0000

Kate, your thoughts on writing as an act of faith ring true—not only because of what you experienced as you were drafting essays that would become Tough Love: A Wyoming Childhood but also because there is research to support the notion of writing as an act of discovery. Early composition researchers, Sondra Perl, for example, who studied writers in the act of writing, suggests that writing is an act of creative discovery—one that brings into consciousness and shapes the half-formed, implicit ideas within our minds. The process itself leads to discovery of what we truly want (or need) to convey. There is, then, a good reason to “trust” your writing and to go where it leads you.

Comment on The South Dakota Festival of Books: From the Front Lines by Kate Meadows

Kate Meadows — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 22:47:32 +0000

In reply to Sharlene. I have always wanted to attend the Iowa Summer Writing Workshops. I'm glad they serve as such an anchor for you and your writing. Seedlings - yes! We all need opportunities to recharge and be reminded that we are writers. Thank you for sharing!

Comment on The South Dakota Festival of Books: From the Front Lines by Sharlene

Sharlene — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 01:55:03 +0000

I am excited that the Iowa Summer Writing Workshops are returning live & on campus next year. I live in Ohio but drive to Iowa for a week of immersion in writing — the stimulation of discussing writing with others who love it, of creating short pieces once or twice a day that serve as seedlings for later works & of discovering new writing topics I hadn’t considered before. That single week recharges my writing energy & reminds me that along with all the other things I am in life, I’m a writer.

Comment on The South Dakota Festival of Books: From the Front Lines by Kate Meadows

Kate Meadows — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 15:20:57 +0000

In reply to Rev David Lindenberg. Thank you, David, for this solid suggestion. It's good to know there are a variety of options out there -- including options for both in-person and online!

Comment on The South Dakota Festival of Books: From the Front Lines by Rev David Lindenberg

Rev David Lindenberg — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:40:01 +0000

I have found some like-minded souls in the KY Christian Writers Conference the past three years. I have been able to pitch some of my projects to agents/& publishers. It has boosted my confidence quite a bit attending these conferences even if they were all done online. But my favorite part about these conferences is creative Christian’s sharing Christ. If anyone interested in writing hasn’t been to a writing conference of any kind, I would encourage you to try it.