Saturday Morning Coffee ☕ #34

Drink up, buddies.

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Happy Saturday, everyone! ☕

Hope you had an amazing week - can you believe it’s September already?!

Just a handful of quick updates today.

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First, I’ve started a fresh 1,000 Words Daily challenge for this month. You can join any time, so don’t be afraid to stick your name on the sheet:

1,000 Words Daily Writing Challenge (September 2024)

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Second,

Kristina God

and I are running a Notes Challenge from September 16-20 (plus implementation days). It will include 5 LIVE sessions at 60 minutes each, plus a specific Notes challenge and 5 more implementation days. I can’t wait!

Here’s Kristina’s note about it:

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Third, I’m looking for ARC readers for my upcoming horror novel, The Substitute. If you’re a fan of the genre and can spare some time to read the book and review it, you’ll be very welcome on the team:

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And as always, here’s the interesting result of last week’s poll:

Thanks for voting! Don’t forget to read to the end for this week’s version. ⬇️

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• Some Thoughts If You're Struggling On Both Medium and Substack by

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• Writing The Book You Want To Read by

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• Why to Write When You Don't Want to Write by

  Brooke Warner

• Writing serial fiction with Scrivener by

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• What Do You Love Most about Your Writing? Learn How to Talk about It! by

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• How I Got 618 Beautiful Subscribers in 90 Days by

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• Overwhelm and burnout as a writer by

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• The war over A.I. writing by

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• How to Become One of the Rare Writers Who Actually Makes Money by

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• Knowing When To Quit Is Just As Important As Knowing When To Keep Going by

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A good video:

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A good note:

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It’s always great to spend this time with you on a Saturday morning! ☕

And here’s this week’s poll:

Feel free to share this post if you found it useful/interesting.

Have a fantastic weekend! 😊

PS. You can read all previous editions of Saturday Morning Coffee here.

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