On Saturday mornings, three other writers and I, meet up online at a writer's event that we call The Little Writing Café. The authors are from Scandinavia and Asia - and we have a lot of fun together.

At The Little Writing Café, we do something that we call "sprinting".  Sprinting is a form of writing under deadline. 

For example, one of the participants set the timer for 25 or 40 minutes, depending on what the authors feel like. Then you write as much as you can for 25 or 40 minutes.

When the time is up, the author, who has set the timer, says "Time's up". We then stop writing and tell the rest of the team how it all went. We continue for as long as everyone feel like it.

This way of writing keeps writing fun, keeps us accountable, and helps us show up for our dream as writers. I get a lot of good advice too from my fellow author friends, and I can provide them with what I know as a published author. 

It's great fun! 

How do you set up a little writing café of your own? Ask and network with other authors online, and meet up by using, for example, Zoom, Discord, WhatsApp or Teams.

Try to meet up once a week or once every second week, keep writing and have fun with it!

Sometimes, I don't have any book writing to do during The Little Writing Café's meetings. During those moments I have studied, marketed, read books on writing, written blog posts, set up spreadsheets for pitching my manuscripts to book publishers, pitched my ideas to book publishers, et cetera. 

There are a lot of things to your life that you have to do too, and there are equally much to the world of an author. Be kind to yourself and your own situation. The importance is that you show up and have fun with it.

Because writing is supposed to be fun. Almost always.