This Epistle is brought to you as part of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group monthly post-thingie. And as it’s Blogging from A to Z Challenge month, everything arises from E.

So Eleven Essentials (for my take on Writing of course).

1. Entrances: everything needs a good beginning, even if the idea arises mid-stream.
2. Enterprise: I choose bold and difficult challenges, plotted at every stage. Episodes?
3. Edge: conflict and tension is crucial to get eager readers turning pages.
4. Emotions: extensive scope as many facets of characters to explore and expound on. Extra inspiration at https://onestopforwriters.com/
5. Erudition: inspiration, facts and relaxation. E-reading and e-research?
6. Errata: we all mistakes, hopefully short-lived ephemera.
7. Efficiency: especially with temporal energies. Also scheduling decisions.
8. Endurance: each novel/assignment is a long haul, so I need to pace myself to avoid exhaustion.
9. Editing: for me the tough stages, but expected and inevitable. Crucial too, and it may take eons.
10. Endings: often worked out at my plotting/outlining stage. Means I know where I am going. But dead ends on the trail are not always evaded.
11. Escapism: a stage that may come… when I need to rekindle my energy, when I need to enliven my imagination, or when I’ve written THE END. And come the end of September, I aim to be escaping/emigrating to the US – as long as our Escrow house purchase goes through.

Of course, there are exceptions to every essential edict. But I say “enough is enough”.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Lao Tzu

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The awesome co-hosts for this April 6 posting of the IWSG are Megan Morgan, Chris Votey, Viola Fury, Christine Rains, Madeline Mora-Summonte, L.G. Keltner, Rachna Chhabria, and Patricia Lynne!