The 29 Club — Thursday Pages
Hosted by South Metro Writers Collective
Details
A playful session of the South Metro Writers Collective:
• Optional: ignore these rules and arrive super early!
• 4:30 pm — timer boundary: 60 minutes of odd ideas and relevant notions
• 5:30 pm — break — core group arrivals
• 6:00 pm — timer boundary: 90 minutes of sacred writing time
• 7:30 pm — break — regroup
• 7:45 pm — timer boundary: 60 minutes of further progress
• 8:45 pm — share word counts — pack out
• The coffee shop is open until 9:00 pm.*
Bring your current project. Let's get you closer to a long shelf displaying your first twenty-nine novels!
The Alliance of Independent Authors' (ALLi's) Big Data Dump released March 2024 reveals indie authors hit their financial stride around novel twenty-nine. By then, you're writing so well readers are pre-buying getaway tickets to your world-building and demanding to know when your next book drops.
The 29 Club breakout sessions are for storytellers playing the long game — developing craft, building backlist, and treating storytelling as a career measured in decades, not months.
John Cleese recommends 90-minute creativity periods in Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide (2020). Dean Wesley Smith and Stephen King in their writing guides urge using a dedicated writing tool and location, and both ardently maintain an author has written; a writer is writing. Be both.
I will arrive before 4:30 pm to get the meeting room, or pull some tables together in the big room.
I will display a sign at the tables for "SMWC".
If you arrive during timers take the open chair and start writing.
If needs must, feel free to leave during breaks.
* Please be prepared to make a small purchase to thank the establishment for use of their space. If you like your hot chocolate hot, you have to smile and ask when you order.