E.R. COOK

So I decided to set some writing goals this year, because honestly with the big move and other ‘life’ things, my writing has taken a backseat in the last couple of years. With that realization, I came to understand that my mental health had taken a dip too.

My goals were:

• Create a monthly newsletter
• Get back to writing Life as a Part time Professional writer blogs
• Publish my second book
• Connect to other writers and start promoting my books at conferences and other places
• Set deadlines for these writing goals so that I don’t get to the end of the year and realize “crap, didn’t do anything again”

That’s one of the hard things being a self-publisher: no deadlines other than the ones you set. It’s too easy to push aside or de-prioritize your writing time/efforts.

So as a part of these goals, I decided to start a really focus the message on my different channels. This website will always be the home for news/events and the Life as a Part Time Professional writer blog. I have also now created a Substack (there’s a QR code on the home screen to link to it) which will the be the home for general musings and my monthly newsletter called THE MEWZ (pronounced like muse) which will be articles not only about writing but about the general world around us, as well as short stories, art and whatever else I feel like sharing. Right now its only a couple pages but I’m already planning on expanding it.

Check out the first edition below, and if you like, head over and subscribe on the Substack.