Highlights from The Writers' Block

The Writers' Block firmly believes that manual curation is essential to the Steem environment. As much as automated systems can be great for supporting friends and for supporting manual curation initiatives, the real key to making Steem work is hard-working humans selecting quality material to curate.

The goal of the TWB curation initiative is to support some of the best output of our own members. In a dream world, we'd have the VP and manpower to trawl Steem and support great content beyond our own member rolls, but we just don't have that right now. Our members work hard to perfect their craft, workshopping and editing their writing and helping each other, and they deserve our support.

Throughout the week, leaders of the TWB community nominate links for voting with the @thewritersblock community account. No one may nominate their own links and the preference is for supporting materials that have been workshopped in our community, but we also upvote well-written texts from active members and also other materials we feel are beneficial to our community, such as writing articles and contests.

As a supplement to our curation trail available in Steemauto, we now offer this weekly highlights post, showcasing some of the materials receiving our upvote. Our thanks go to everyone who is already supporting TWB and its members by following our curation trail, delegating VP to our account, or providing other support to our members. If you only have a few votes to spare this week or limited reading time, we recommend checking out the following links.

The highlights are selected by the leadership as a group from the posts already receiving our upvote in the previous week.

Fiction

We recommend checking out the Art Prompt writing contest. Several of our members wrote and workshopped entries, and a number of other writers entered. But we can't highlight any individual pieces as the contest is still in judging.

Nonfiction

@anikekirsten: Mischievous Mermaid

Proving that the skills of the Writers' Block members don't stop with words, @anikekirsten offers us a detailed tutorial on how to draw a digital art SteemMonster.

@bex-dk: Waiting for Poop

With a humourous take on a day living with horses, @bex-dk shows us the frustrations of the medical side of horse-keeping.

Poetry

@tinypaleokitchen: Cool Cotton

A moving form poem about loneliness. It resulted from one of the exercises in our own #the-poetry-academy.

Writing-Related

@vaughndemont: Still Want to Be a Writer?

Sharing his thoughts and experience, @vaughndemont gives essential insight and tips into what can make a story work.

@tinypaleokitchen: Don't Be Dense. Use the Right Tense.

In an eloquent and educational article, @tinypaleokitchen brings us another installment of her Tiny Teaches series, this time looking at tenses.

About TWB

The Writers' Block is an active Discord-based writers community. Our primary focus is on peer review workshops for improving work from a variety of genres. Our focus is not just on Steem, but on producing quality texts for any form of publication. We currently have workshops for fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and songwriting. Our Poetry Academy and Writers' Workout channels provide exercises and other instruction for improving skills in those genres.

Our organization is open to writers at any point in their journey, whether new and aspiring or already published. If interested in checking our community out, follow the link below. When you get onto our discord server, please have a nice chat with our greeters. We just want to make sure new members understand what our community is about and have expectations we can fulfill.