Feeling insecure? Need support? Join us for the Insecure Writers Support Group, created by Alex Cavanaugh and co-hosted by Julie Flanders, Murees Dupé, Dolorah at Book Lover, Christine Rains, and Heather Gardner! If you're like me, sometimes the negative voices get you down. Here's a helpful post for writing: Five Negative Voices and How to Shush Them. A more positive voice: I love writing--I really do! Let me specify, though, that I love FICTION writing. The past two weeks I've slaved over writing a psychology book chapter for a textbook, and it was hell . No wonder I gravitate more toward therapy than research. One small consolation is that writing five fiction novels has improved my academic writing, too. I'm almost done with my sixth book ACED (Blocked #2), yahoo! 76000 / 80000 words. 95% done with Aced! I'm hoping for a November or December release, depending on the editing timeli...