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This week the list is focusing alot on not being afraid to write and how just taking the time to write will help you grow as a writer.

I will start off with Julie Roads of Writing Roads with her tweet about Copyblogger’s post on How to Get Copywriters to Mentor you for Free. I will say at first when I started reading his first paragragh about if you want mentoring to learn do write with great prose but you don’t have the money….”get into their heads”. However, knowing Copyblogger is one of the most predominant sites on copywriting and blogging, I figured there was more to this bit of a sentence and I kept reading.
And I received some great pointers:
1) Read and learn. Be the shadow of those who write well and take notes of the words they use. Of course not word for word, but study how they choose the words and how they structure words.
2) Take the time to physically write these lessons down. By taking the deliberate action of writing these lessons down, you can retain the value much better. 3) Growth will occur by writing down and studying how others write because it challenges your memory muscle.

And Dave offers a challenge in this post to writers—-check it out!

Then I noticed this tweet by Cathy Bryant on writing character emotion on April 10th. Now, when I clicked on the link to this post, I was taken to the most current post of today, which was an interview with Cheryl Wyatt. I was thinking this was the post for the writing character emotion so I started reading it…great interview and Cathy asks some great questions about writing. Then I went to the post about writing character emotions on April 10th and it is another great post where she creates a discussion around the emotion of anger and shares her answers with you.

Through my google reader, I found this post by Rebecca Benston of Benston Blogs about The Best Advice I ever GotRebecca discusses how in the book, The Right to Write, is explains sometimes just by putting your emotions or experiences in written form helps with your writing. At least you are doing the physical task of writing something and not stopping yourself by listening to your inner voice say, “why are you writing that down, no one cares about how you got angry at the guy who cut in front of you at the grocery store.” For me, I wrote down when I took my daughter to the doctor and what she was doing while we were waiting. It helped me think about describing things using my senses at the time–what I saw, heard, smelled felt.

Next, just found this one on Twitter—from @travellinda. A forum for women writers called SheWrites. A newly created ning group for women writers to gather and support each other.