Mid-World Arts Weekly Newsletter

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Hello, Everyone!

Hi, everyone! This week, we'll be meeting on Zoom this Tuesday, April 29, at 7:30pm EDT. Come one, come all. We need your input. If you have the time, make the time. That way, our submitters get the greatest possible variety of input. I hope to see as many of you on Tuesday as possible. Just go to the website and click the Zoom Meeting Links button, then the Join Zoom Meeting link. Or, something new, just click the link below. The Zoom Meeting page is protected. The password is CRITicalWork. If you're new, try to click in a few minutes early, as Zoom may want you to install a small program to facilitate your participation. It's nearly instantaneous and no work on your part. Also, showing up a few minutes early will give you a chance to fiddle with your controls. 

Some of us show up early, like starting around 7pm, just to say howdy outside of official critique business. You're invited to join us.

And here's the link to the website:

Steve Has a Book Out!

Jane and Steve have put more books out there into the world. You can find them listed in the Mid-World Books! page of the website. Please spread the word to all your friends, neighbors, enemies, and perfect strangers. Also to all your socials on the Internet. Let's give these stories the initial and continuing boosts they need to survive in the cruel, cruel, publishing world. It would also be amazing, should you purchase the books yourself, and please do, if you could leave reviews at the sites you buy them from. Nothing raises a book more than reviews. Here's a couple of links:

Submissions

The submission pieces are posted to the Submissions page on the website. And remember, newer folks, there's a document on the Resources page (How Mid-World Arts Works) that you should definitely read beforehand. It should answer all your questions about how to participate, including how to critique, how to submit, and how to join a meeting. By the way, if there are any questions you have that the document doesn't address, please let me know.

This week's submissions are

MASLOW MAGIC

by John at jgrimes@iquest.net

Password to Decrypt: MazloMajik

STATMAN!: X VALUE I

by Steve at stephanloy@yahoo.com

No Password

Do join in offering these authors the best critiques they can get. Even if you aren't currently producing your own stuff, you can help your fellow writers perfect theirs. And analyzing other people's work helps you improve your own. It's only a few hours out of your week, spread out over several days. Be a great member. Participate!

Guidance for Maslow Project

As we did this past year with the Halloween collection (if you've no idea what I'm talking about, there's a link here), we're putting together a short story collection to come out in ebook and print at the end of the year or in early 2026. All in our group may participate; no one is required to participate. If you want to get in on the fun, just write a short story that adheres to the theme. What is that theme? Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. We'll have to massage that a little for public consumption, yes. For details, up to what details we have, anyway, there's a page on the website. Just go to the front page and click the button The Maslow Project at the bottom.

WIP Wrangle

There is no WIP Wrangle this Monday. That's my anniversary and I'll be waaaay too busy convincing Amy to extend our contract for another year. That doesn't mean you can't WIP Wrangle on your own. Keep on writing! There may also be no WIP Wrangles during the Imperial Rule of Jane, but that's something you'll need to take up with her.

Jane’s Got A Book Out!

Jane and Steve have put more books out there into the world. You can find them listed in the Mid-World Books! page of the website. Please spread the word to all your friends, neighbors, enemies, and perfect strangers. Also to all your socials on the Internet. Let's give these stories the initial and continuing boosts they need to survive in the cruel, cruel, publishing world. It would also be amazing, should you purchase the books yourself, and please do, if you could leave reviews at the sites you buy them from. Nothing raises a book more than reviews. Here's a couple of links:

Missing the Full MWA Website?

Grammar Girl

Tip of the Week

How to Use Commas in Dialogue

And that’s it for this week. Now I’m off to prep for Amy’s birthday, which is coming up this Friday! Yay!