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074 // Feeling Isolated as a Teen Author? 3 Ways to Connect with Other Authors

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Aug 18, 2023

Feeling isolated as a teen author is a common struggle, but there are ways to overcome it! Learn actionable steps to connect with fellow writers and foster a supportive community. Discover the importance of local events, writing groups, and workshops to break the loneliness. Plus, get excited about an upcoming free workshop focusing on the key principles of the three-act story structure and enjoy a hands-on writing experiment. It's time to conquer that feeling of isolation and engage in the vibrant world of storytelling!

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Isolation is Common But Unnecessary

Feeling isolated as a teen author is common but unnecessary.
You are unique yet share wild, wonderful dreams with many others.

ADVICE

Use Events to Connect Locally

Attend local library or bookstore events to meet authors and fellow writers.
Ask memorable, adventurous questions to connect and be remembered by authors.

ADVICE

Join Courses for Community Access

Invest in a writing course to access communities of writers.
Participate or observe in course communities to learn strategies and feel less alone.

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Feeling isolated as a teen author? Wondering if you’re the only one who thinks the way you do? Who dreams the way you do? Who understands this crazy desire you have to make up people and worlds and stories? I get it. I felt isolated for years. Decades, really. Which was unnecessary. I didn’t have to feel alone. And neither do you. Today I’m sharing three ways I have learned how to connect with other authors that will help you do the same.

Listen in to find out how to conquer that feeling of isolation.

Next Steps:

During this workshop, you will learn the basic principles of the three-act story structure. This three-act framework is the backbone of great storytelling, so when you understand this structure, your stories become easier to write and harder for readers to put down once they start reading.

Since you don’t really learn something until you experiment with that knowledge, we’re going to do some writing experimentation during this workshop. We’ll let AI do the fast writing for us to demonstrate the structure elements, and every attendee will have chance to contribute at least one idea towards the creation of this story. So if you show up and participate, you will have the chance to be a contributor of a short story I will read on this podcast in a future episode.

Did I mention it’s free to attend? And that the amazing group of guys who are making incredible progress on their books within the League of Adventurous Authors will be in the workshop? And that I’ll be opening the doors to the League at the end of this workshop? Well, it is free. The authors in the League will be attending. And you’ll have a chance to join the League when I reopen the membership again at the end of the workshop.

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