West Philly Writers League

West Philly Writers League For published & unpublished writers in West Philadelphia: information, support, sharing, tips to improve writing, resources, and keeping West Philly weird.

Our organization's primary purpose is to provide an online forum for writing information, books, posts about local writing events and workshops, general support and sharing among writers, answers to questions about writing, helping members improve their skills and eventually market their writing if they desire to do that, and to promote the interests of our writers and the small writing community

in West Philadelphia. The League is composed of published and unpublished writers, and people just interested in writing and literature. Eventually, we would like to have regular public mixers and meetings to discuss books and writing, somewhere in West Philly. The local offshoot writing group, Daughters of Doom, is a mixed genre women only closed group, by invitation only. They meet once a month.

Spring writing for Camp NaNoWriMo is coming up in April. Writers, start your laptop engines.
03/04/2025

Spring writing for Camp NaNoWriMo is coming up in April. Writers, start your laptop engines.

06/10/2020
02/28/2020

There is nothing more sustaining to long-term creative work than time and space – and these things cost money

02/22/2020

Jenny Offill is the master of novels told in sly, burnished fragments. In her latest, ‘Weather,’ she uses this small form to address the climate collapse.

Useful.
02/20/2020

Useful.

02/18/2020

Bookshop.org is looking to generate revenue for independent book stores by moving sales, and affiliate links, away from Amazon and toward independent bookstores.

This is a great read. But also read the comments in the original post, because the thread is very illuminating. Relevant...
01/31/2020

This is a great read. But also read the comments in the original post, because the thread is very illuminating. Relevant mainly to writing, but to art as well, and how selling what you do and making a living has changed.

I liked some of the commenters who pointed out that when people were reading print magazines and books, artificial intelligence wasn’t creeping and tracking their data and no one had to worry about hackers. There are upsides and downsides to the digital publishing game these days.

“Prozac Nation” seemed to herald a boundless future for young creatives. It was actually the beginning of the end.

01/26/2020

‘The Outsiders’ changed the way kids read

I hear books are making a strong comeback. There’s something about holding one in your hands, feeling the weight of it, ...
01/26/2020

I hear books are making a strong comeback. There’s something about holding one in your hands, feeling the weight of it, flipping the pages, smelling the paper and ink, reading words you can touch. And there’s the quietude of a library that is comforting...

https://lithub.com/in-2019-more-americans-went-to-the-library-than-to-the-movies-yes-really/

The US film industry may have generated revenues somewhere in the region of $40 billion last year, but it seems Hollywood still has plenty of work to do if it wants to compete with that most hallow…

Seventh Circle: Using Emojis To Sum Up Feelings or Events That Are Way Too Complicated for Emojis To Sum Up
01/17/2020

Seventh Circle:
Using Emojis To Sum Up Feelings or Events
That Are Way Too Complicated for Emojis To Sum Up

First Circle (Limbo): Autocorrect Here wander the otherwise virtuous souls who were forced into grievous errors by autocorrect programs. They sit ...

I feel so much better now!
01/09/2020

I feel so much better now!

We’re not than halfway through NaNoWriMo month, and I hope you West Philly WriMos are hitting all your writing goals.Rem...
11/18/2019

We’re not than halfway through NaNoWriMo month, and I hope you West Philly WriMos are hitting all your writing goals.

Remember, it’s better DONE than perfect. There’s plenty of time to edit, later.

https://www.nanowrimo.org

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