Midwest Writing, Part III - Writer's Blogs

 Having written about Midwest writing here and here, delaying my work day, I thought to google "blogs midwestern writers". Here are the results, but I must say that none seem very current:

Cathy Day has The Big Thing, #amnoveling, #amlinking, and Literary Citizenship. None are really current, but I do like her piece on LitHub, They Found a Meth Lab in Cole Porter’s Childhood Home And Other Tales of Those Who Dared Leave Indiana. Here is an example of what we Indiana writers need to address, and I think how we can write about Indiana. She also teaches at Ball State, so she gets listed first.

Writer, Writer, Pants on Fire seems new, is part of a bigger website, and is out of Ohio. This one looks very worthwhile. Good to see a Midwest writer.

kass fogle, author seems to follow the same format as the above blog, a bit of marketing, few posts, so my assumption is a new site.

Bubbles and Fiber Blog: Books and Life from the Midwest. seems slight, not current, but it does connect with the writer's Wisconsin mysteries. ? Again, good to see a Midwest writer.

Screenwriting from Iowa is current, looks like it will be useful for screenwriters - albeit the creator has this thing for Tom Brady.

Ann Kroeker, Writing Coach is pretty much update-to-date, is a coaching site with good information, but I cannot find the Midwest connection.

Midwest Romance Writers (MRW) is current, with titles I want to come back to read in depth (they look that helpful).

Midwestern Gothic is defunct for about a year, but it remains online with its Writing Midwest titles still available.

Also defunct is Midwest Writers/Readers, but it is available for resurrection.

The Midwest Writing Centers Association (MWCA) has a blog, Midwest Voices, geared towards the institutional and is rather barren, at that.

Midwest Writing & Editing is two years since its last post, but it has some interesting, well-written posts on writing.

Midwest Writing & Editing is a full-service writing and editing firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Other sites turned up, not all being blogs, were as follows: 

• The Midwest Book Review 
• Imagining Home Writing from the Midwest
• Off the Beaten Shelf Book Blog  
• Midwest Living Writer's Guidelines 
• Dorothy Rosby  (Who is very funny)
• NewPages Blog (I am keeping this for possible submission leads.)

I am not sure of these Midwestern pedigrees. I know Ploughshares is not a Midwestern blog, but it did publish Finding the Essential in the Literary Midwest:

But here’s the good news: the ability to see the beauty in the vast horizons of the Midwestern landscape has a close cousin in the ability to appreciate and create great writing. That corn and soy that grows up from the ground are akin to the characters that grow from an organically written story. The richness of the soil is not unlike that famous iceberg lurking below the surface of which Hemingway—great son of the Midwest—spoke. The best writing always has more beneath the surface than in the text itself.

I believe one of the hallmarks of the Midwestern character is that it strives toward the essential and eschews the extraneous. And aren’t these habits of great literary writing?

I find Google unsatisfactory, but will try a different query.

sch 11/10/22

(see Midwest Writing, Part IV - Blogs, Sites.)