• Is there something about writing that you want to get off your chest?
• Is there advice you wish you’d been given or a warning that would have prevented some frustration on your part? (Notice that I said some. If you’re a writer, or going to be a writer, you need to make friends with frustration, because it is going to be at your side and in your head a lot.)
• Is there part of my Write Like a Badass approach that you want to call bullshit on? Or has something I’ve read or said helped you in your writing?
• Do you get irritated when you read lousy writing that has been published by a major publisher, while your work of genius has gotten rejected again and again?
• Want to boast about your success? Tell us how you did it? Rub our noses in it, even?
• Do you want to share your knowledge about a particular writing genre? Tell us why you love writing antebellum vampire cozy mystery comedies or nonfiction books about bringing feng shui to closets?
• Want to tell people how you successfully promoted your self-published book?
• Do you feel like your work is being overlooked because it represents a viewpoint that is not mainstream (whatever that word means)?
• Would you like to tell us why your membership in a writers’ group that meets and critiques has been worthwhile or a waste of time?
• Do you just need to vent about the writing life?

Whatever writing topic is burrowing in your mind right now, squirming to get out and see daylight, might make a damn good post. By damn good, I mean something that would, in some way, be beneficial to the people who read this stuff. Both good and bad experiences offer useful lessons, so feel free to get ugly with it. Badass writers aren’t afraid of ugly.

Why bother? Putting your writing out there on a public forum is risky. That’s good for you. You will be engaging with your fellow writers, who will, in all probability, comment on your post. There’s a good chance that some commentors will be supportive. YOthers will not. Some will likely be negative, and that’s good. It will give you practice in dealing with criticism.

Write a blog post and send it to me. If it’s any good, I’ll post it and let you know that I’ve posted it.

-Give me 300 to 1,000 words.
-Use your real or name or a pseudonym.
-Link to you own website or social media if you want to. (NEVER miss an opportunity to promote yourself.)
-Include a photo of yourself if you want to.

Send your blog post to: howtowritelikeabadass@gmail.com. When you do that, you give me the right to post your piece on my blog, but you retain ownership of it.