October 2023 Treasure Hunt

Brooke Warner is offering a new Show Up and Write series for accountability from September 2023 to February 2024. The cost is $99 for the entire series, no matter when you sign up.

Silk and Sonder has posted its October Socials on Eventbrite.

Lauren Sapala is hosting her Silent Writing Sessions again this month. These can, of course, be used for anything! Some folks use for writing or other creative pursuits, but some do tasks they have to get done or have been procrastinating on.

Nicole Antoinette’s Get Shit Done Club is starting again! October 23rd to December 20th.

The Virtual Erma 2023 is ON! October 21st and featuring Marta Kaufffman.

Reedsy is offering a new Write a Novel Masterclass. “Your story matters. Join Tom Bromley for a writing master class and finish your first draft in 101 days.” Offered three times so far. Class start dates in September 18, October 30, and January 8. Price is steep at $1K, but it looks serious and worth it.

Every month (twice each month), Eventbrite offers a FREE Virtual Writing Hour with the National Portrait Gallery event. This month’s sessions are on the 10th and 24th.

World Virtual Tours offers several free online walks through wonderful cities each month.

Books out this month:

• A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories by Terry Pratchett

• Homeward by Angela Jackson-Brown

• One Last Kill by Robert Dugoni

• The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman

• The Roaring Days of Zora Lily by Noelle Salazar

Books that aren’t newly released, but that I enjoyed reading this month:

• Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry

• The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt

• Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney

PBS has really irked me since 2020 with all their Bandwagon BS, but a POV documentary called While We Watched was a true 10 out of 10. It’s about India’s tv journalist Ravish Kumar. And you don’t have to know much to appreciate his story - it’s heartbreakingly universal now.

Quotes

“Not being beautiful,” she wrote, “was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.” ~Golda Meir

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." ~Wayne Dyer

"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments." ~ Rose Kennedy

My Christmas present feeling this month was a trip to Midwest Fall after 7 years of the exact same sunny, hot day.