The 29 Club — Monday Pages

A playful session of the South Metro Writers Collective:

• 5:30 pm — arrivals
• 6:00 pm — timer boundary: 90 minutes of sacred writing time
• 7:30 pm — share weekly iteration counts (how many 90-minute blocks this week?)

• The coffee shop is open until 9:00 pm.*

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I have no patience for whiners. I really don't. Problems are for fixing.
-Kristine Kathryn Rusch, How Writers Fail : Analysis and Solutions (2023)
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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 2023 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. Top-earning indie authors invest 20 hours a week writing — that's 13 ninety-minute iterations.

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 5:30 pm to pull tables together in the big room.

I will display a sign at the tables for "SMWC".

* 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.