Keep Writing with Fey is COMING! / IWSG

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Keep Writing with Fey will release on July 14th! 

I have two opportunities for you if you'd like to help with my release.

1. Blog Hop

Share your story about writer's block, depression, and/or burnout and how you overcame it or what you are currently doing to heal.

Blog Hop Day: August 5th IWSG Day (I thought this would make it easier for participants of both hops.) NOTE: I will send you all the information about my book for the post 2 weeks before.

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2. Book Blasts

If you can host me on your blog or post to Facebook, fill out the below Google form. The book blast will consist of the blurb, cover art, links, my bio, and author photo. No excerpt.

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Scroll down, fill in info, and click "submit."

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Here is the author's note and table of contents for you to get a feel for what you'll discover inside this book.

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AUTHOR’S NOTE

When I shared my story about depression and writer’s burnout, I received many emails, comments, and Facebook messages from other writers thanking me for my bravery and telling me about their own trials. That really put into perspective for me how many people suffer from depression and/or burnout in silence. I had no idea those individuals were impacted by these things, just as they hadn’t known that I was, because my outward presence to others was always happy and smiley and bright.

After the supportive response and upon realizing how many writers in my online circles were struggling, too, I wanted to do something to help. I was candid with my experiences and blogged about the things that assisted me through the rough times in the hope that it would aid others.

During this time, I recognized the need for writers to receive support, guidance, tips, reminders, and encouragement during their writer’s block, depression, and burnout. That’s how I got the idea for this book. A book not just about depression or only about writer’s block, but both, and much more.

Since you have picked up this book, that means you may need assistance with one or all of these areas, and I sincerely hope you find what you need here…that tiny spark to get you through whatever you are going through.

As always, keep writing.

Keep believing.

Keep dreaming.

Chrys Fey

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Author's Note

Part One - Writer's Block

Spark One - What is Writer's Block?

Spark Two - Restrictive Writing Rules

Spark Three - Schedule Your Time

Spark Four - Shut Yourself Off

Spark Five - Social Media Wormhole

Spark Six - Free Day

Spark Seven - Seek Other Creative Outlets

Spark Eight - Break Down Your Goals

Spark Nine - Word Count Calendar with Stickers

Spark Ten - Plot It Out

Spark Eleven - Embrace Your Pace

Spark Twelve - Change Your Writing Atmosphere and Medium

Spark Thirteen - 10 Ways to Spark Your Story Ideas

Spark Fourteen - Natural Stress Relievers

Part Two - Depression

Spark Fifteen - The Frustrations of a Creative Life

Spark Sixteen - What is Depression?

Spark Seventeen - My Case of "Postpartum" Depression

Spark Eighteen - Naps

Spark Nineteen - Take Care of Yourself

Spark Twenty - Publishing Depression

Spark Twenty-one - Interpreting Dreams

Spark Twenty-two - Gratitude Journal

Spark Twenty-three - Happiness Jar

Spark Twenty-four - Reward Yourself for Submitting

Spark Twenty-five - Reward Your Rejections

Spark Twenty-six - Rejection: Serenity, Courage, and Wisdom

Spark Twenty-seven - Disability and Poverty Depression

Spark Twenty-eight - 100 Happy Days

Spark Twenty-nine - Discovery/Art Journal

Spark Thirty - Rock Bottom

Spark Thirty-one - Write a Letter to Your Fear

Spark Thirty-two - Negative and Positive

Spark Thirty-three - Vision Board

Spark Thirty-four - Disappointing Sales

Spark Thirty-five - Review Your Depression

Spark Thirty-six - Get a Dammit!® Doll

Spark Thirty-seven - Say This to Yourself

Spark Thirty-eight - A Double Blow

Spark Thirty-nine - Remove Trigger People

Spark Forty - Reading to Beat Depression

Spark Forty-one - Nature to Beat Depression

Spark Forty-two - HappyLight™

Spark Forty-three - Mood Tracking App

Spark Forty-four - Blogging to Beat Depression

Spark Forty-five - Social Media Depression

Part Three - Writer's Burnout

Spark Forty-six - What is Writer's Burnout?

Spark Forty-seven - Speak

Spark Forty-eight - Write About Yourself

Spark Forty-nine - Join a Writers' Group

Spark Fifty - Writing in the Morning or Before Bed

Spark Fifty-one - Free Your Mind with Walking

Spark Fifty-two - Be an Artist when You're Not Writing

Spark Fifty-three - Fictionalize Non-Fiction

Spark Fifty-four - One Day at a Time

Spark Fifty-five - Don't Force Yourself

Spark Fifty-six - Alternative Hobby

Spark Fifty-seven - Patience

Spark Fifty-eight - The Power of Nano

Spark Fifty-nine - No Stress

Spark Sixty - Should You Keep Writing?

Spark Sixty-one - Should You Stop Writing?

Part Four - To Be a Writer, You Don't Need...

Spark Sixty-two- A Literature Degree

Spark Sixty-three - Money

Spark Sixty-four - A Support System at Home

Spark Sixty-five - A Laptop

Spark Sixty-six - Love

Spark Sixty-seven - An Interesting Life

Spark Sixty-eight - An Office or Desk

Spark Sixty-nine - A Home

Spark Seventy - To Be a Good Speller or Vocabulary Wiz

Spark Seventy-one - To Be Young

Spark Seventy-two - To Be an Adult

Spark Seventy-three - A Mentor

Part Five - Creativity Boosts

Spark Seventy-four - Your Power Element

Spark Seventy-five - Color Therapy

Spark Seventy-six - Aromatherapy 

Spark Seventy-seven - Feng Shui

Spark Seventy-eight - Crystals

Spark Seventy-nine - Write Down Your Dreams

Spark Eighty - Brain Power

Spark Eighty-one - Get Back to You

Dear Reader - Best Wishes

Depression and Suicide Resources

QUESTION: Do you suffer from writer's block, depression, and/or burnout? Have you?

Bad Things Must Happen / Vlog + LOST HELIX by Scott Coon

Thank you for coming to a vlog edition of Write with Fey!

In this video, I talk about how bad things must happen to our characters.

Enjoy!

Bad Things Must Happen

Length: 3:44

Feel free to comment on my blog and/or on this video on YouTube. To go the video's YouTube page, click on the title located on the video.

QUESTIONS: Do you put your characters through hardships and have bad things happen to them?

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    A unique and exciting new release from Dancing Lemur Press...

Lost Helix

By Scott Coon

Lost Helix is the key…

Stuck on an asteroid mining facility, DJ dreams of writing music. His dad is a corporate hacker and his best friend Paul intends to escape to become a settler in a planet-wide land rush, but neither interests DJ.

When his dad goes missing, DJ finds a file containing evidence of a secret war of industrial sabotage, a file encrypted by his dad using DJ's song Lost Helix. Caught in a crossfire of lies, DJ must find his father and the mother he never knew.

When the mining company sends Agent Coreman after DJ and his guitar, DJ and Paul escape the facility and make a run for civilization. Will DJ discover the truth before Coreman catches him?

Release Sate: June 2, 2020

Pages: 268

Genres: Science Fiction – Action & Adventure

Crime & Mystery

YA Science Fiction

Links:

Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Helix-Scott-Coon/dp/1939844681

Barnes & Noble - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lost-helix-scott-coon/1135144023?ean=9781939844682

iTunes - https://books.apple.com/ca/book/lost-helix/id1490128516

Kobo - https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/lost-helix

Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50386208-lost-helix

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Scott Coon has enjoyed success as a science fiction short story writer, winning accolades and publishing over a dozen works in various magazines. Formally a U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst and currently a software developer, Scott brings his technical experience into his work, along with a sense of spectacle.

http://www.scottcoonscifi.com/

http://www.losthelix.com/

Meet the Flutters from BAD FAIRY by Elaine Kaye / IWSG

PLEASE HELP ME TO WELCOME MY MOM, ELAINE KAYE, FOR HER DEBUT MIDDLE GRADE BOOK BAD FAIRY!

AVAILABLE TODAY!

Title: Bad Fairy

Series: A Bad Fairy Adventure (Book One)

Author: Elaine Kaye

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Genre: Fantasy Middle Grade

Length: 66 pages
Age Range: 8-12

BLURB: Thistle Greenbud is not a bad fairy. She simply doesn't like rules, and it's just her luck that her homework is to create a new rule for the fairy handbook. But first, she has more important things to do. Like figure out how to get back at Dusty and Moss for playing tricks on her.

Before she can carry out her plan, though, disaster strikes and she finds herself working alongside the very fairies she wanted revenge on. Can they work together and trust each other, or will things go from bad to worse?

BUY LINKS:

Amazon / Barnes & Noble

MEET THE FLUTTERS:

Thistle
Flutter Club Role – President

School – Level A (Average)

Nickname – Bad Fairy

Favorite Color – All shades of red, including pinks

Favorite Food – Cabbage patch stew

Personality – Spunky, tough, likes to pay back Dusty and Moss when they pick on her

Dislikes – RULES and BULLIES

Lilly

Flutter Club Role – Vice President

School – Level A (Average)

Favorite Color – Blue

Favorite Food – Blueberries

Personality – Sweet but no pushover

Dislikes – when Dusty and Moss play tricks on her best friend

Weedy

Flutter Cub Role – Active Member

School – Level A (Average)

Favorite Color – Dark green

Favorite Food – Dill

Personality – Prickly, sometimes rude, not afraid to say what’s on her mind

Dislikes – Drama queens and beauty queens.

Clover

Flutter Club Role – Active Member

School – Level A (Average)

Favorite Color – Pale green

Favorite Food – Clover flowers

Personality – likes to be in the spotlight and thinks she’s the leader

Dislikes – being told what to do and when Rose trades clover flowers with Lacey

Rose

Flutter Club Role – Active Member

School – Level A (Average)

Favorite Color – Pink

Favorite Food – Artichokes

Personality – sweetheart, shy, and is passionate towards other’s feelings

Dislikes – clover flowers and being left out

Lacey

Flutter Club Role – New Member

School – Level A (Average)

Favorite Color – Silver

Favorite Food – Clover flowers

Personality – nice to everyone, fashionista, and smart as a whip

Dislikes – getting rainwater on her wings

FLUTTER CLUB HELPERS:

EXCERPT:

     “Where have you been?” Clover asks when I fly in.

     Standing in front of the four Flutter members, I answer. “I’ll tell you later. We need to get down to business. Lacey wants to join our club. Should we let her?” I look at each member for some kind of response.

     “She’s a whiner,” Weedy says. “All she does is complain. If her wings get a little bit wet, it’s the end of the world to her. She says rainwater will dry them out and they won’t shine anymore. How pathetic is that?”

     Weedy never has a problem saying what’s on her mind. She’s a lot like Clover, but Clover is a little easier to get along with. Clover has chestnut-brown hair and gray eyes, whereas Weedy has short-cropped black hair and green eyes. And she always wears green, making her look like a real weed, especially if her hair is windblown.

     Rose speaks up. “Well, I like her. She’s always nice to me. She even trades her spinach and artichoke salad for my bag of clover flowers.”

     Rose is the sweetheart of the bunch, shy and extremely passionate toward other’s feelings. Rose is curvy and short with red, frizzy hair and hazel eyes. One reason I like her is she mostly votes the same way I usually do, the opposite way from the others.

     Clover glares at Rose. “Why don’t you ever swap lunch with me? You know how much I love clover flowers.” She pouts.

     “Because you don’t eat artichoke salads,” Rose says.

“I hope you choke on an artichoke,” Clover snaps with a fling of her hair.

     This has gone too far. “Girls! ‘A Flutter can never threaten another Flutter.’ That is rule number two. And what is rule number one?”

     “‘Love your fellow Flutter,”’ Clover mutters.

     “And Rose? What is rule number three?”

     “‘Consider your fellow Flutters’ feelings,’” Rose quotes. She walks over to Clover. “I apologize.”

I elbow Clover.

“Me too,” Clover mumbles.

GIVEAWAY:

3 Signed Paperback Picture Books –

Pea Soup Disaster, Doctor Mom, The Missing Alphabet

Eligibility: International

Number of Winners: One

Giveaway Ends: July 1, 2020 12:00am Eastern Standard Time

LINK: http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/76132e0220/?

a Rafflecopter giveaway

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Elaine Kaye is the author of A Gregory Green Adventure series. She first created Gregory Green after her son, who loved her homemade pea soup, thus inspiring the story Pea Soup Disaster. Bad Fairy is her middle grade debut and the first of A Bad Fairy Adventure series.

Kaye has worked as a library assistant and teacher’s assistant in elementary schools in the Sunshine State. She currently lives in Florida, but she has called Michigan; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Okinawa, Japan home. She is a grandmother of three boys.

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Thank you for sharing the Flutters with us, Mom. <3

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