SPAWN Office Hours #111

Pirate hours every Thursday from 6pm-7pm BST or 7-8pm CET onwards. Get over here with your comments, questions and support.

Welcome to SPAWN, Substack Pirate After Work Network. We’re here on Thursdays 6pm BST UK, 7pm CET. For those who are unable to join live, post a question out of hours and tick the box to have it on Notes so you get more chances for an answer.

New podcast episode is out on Sunday. The May Song Title Poetry is on next month and this month, I hope you join me for the NaPoWriMo! Feel free to upgrade to a paid subscription, to support my publication. To those of you who do a big warm thank you!

If you’re here for the first time introduce yourself. Ideally, answer questions from others and engage with newcomers and veteran stackers.

Here’s a poem from earlier last year:

King of a fallen forest

I’ll start us off with a few questions/tasks for today’s SPAWN:

1). I did invite Chris Best to our SPAWN community for our two year anniversary. I didn’t have a meltdown about him not showing up. We are outside of the algorithm pulse this moment in time. That’s ok. What grand gesture have you done that work or didn’t quite work out as you had imagined?

2). After you’ve worked through the answer to a SPAWN question do you find its theme lingers on in the week to come that it affects your writing? Or rather makes you more aware of it? Give an example or more if you want of how something you read made your own work more transparent to you or cleared a problem area you worried about.

3). Between the Button and More there’s a new option called Template. Have you played around with it yet? How do you plan on using it?

SPAWN has its own section on my publication. You can access all previous sessions with a wealth of resources, hands on information, hacks and tips from writers and creatives who’ve been doing what they do for a long while. Posts older than two weeks get archived and are fully accessible to paid members.

SPAWN is Office Hours and hang out with Writer Pilgrim by So Elite and our lovely crew. We’ll talk all things Substack that we love or don’t understand. The floor is always open to your questions and invite your subscribers and followers here too.

Another regular feature on my publication is the monthly Song Title poetry first Friday of the month and the weekly Prompt Station with a writing prompt released every Tuesday. And look at my podcast Writer Pilgrim Sounds that now includes videos too of London’s hidden amazing places, poetry and interviews with some super amazing artists. I hope you join for those too.

We are live for an hour and many stay for longer. Mostly, we chat about writing and Substacking; we celebrate each other’s successes and find new readers and subscribers in the process. Before we go on to this week’s SPAWN here’s what we did last week and make sure you check the comments as there are some useful resources in there:

SPAWN Office Hours #89

Naturally comments spill outside the live hour because our community is all over the world. You’re welcome to join pre or after hours. We have novel, short story, poetry, non-fiction and travel writers, podcasters, youtubers and journalists. Between us, we solve most questions.

Comment about what’s been eating you on Substack and what’s been good this week. Share your questions and achievements and socialise with us.

Everyone’s welcome to join the conversation. Politeness and kindness are our rules. Offer advice if you can, no guesswork and no spammers. Our readers and SPAWN are a supportive community and many of us support one another outside this weekly event.

Thank you for turning up each week and for returning to Late Night Spawn to support and reply to writers and creators who turn up after hours to our events.

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