Take Risks, Break the Rules, Write Proudly: An Interview with MM Schreier

Maggie has dozens of publishing credits to her name, is a Push Cart Nominee,  has won Writer's Workout Writer's Games (twice), the YeahWrite Super Challenge, TL;DR's Wordherd, Iron Faerie Publishing's Betwixt Contest, and Writing Battle (twice!). She's also placed top 10 in both Writer's Playground and NYC Midnight.

She also happens to be one of the most encouraging human beings in the whole prompted-writing-competition community!

She joins us today to talk about her writing and promote her new short story collection... and oh by the way... she hasn't revealed the title of said collection... UNTIL NOW! 

Listen to our interview to hear the announcement.

We start introducing Maggie around the 8 minute mark, and the interview begins at about 15 minutes. She chatted with us for nearly an hour and a half!

Topics include: 
-writing competitions--world building on a tight word count
-self publishing, and the work that goes along with it
-imposter syndrome
-new years resolutions / goal setting
-compiling a collection
-how to approach prompts so that your story will stand out
-discovering your passion for writing later in life
-balancing a busy writing schedule
-how being a "yes" person and a voracious reader has led to her vast (and sometimes obscure) knowledge-base
-reworking/selling a piece after competition

If you'd like to learn more about Maggie, please visit her website, here: https://mmschreier.com/

If you'd like to connect with the podcast, we're currently checking email (writinginprogresspod@gmail.com) and instagram (WritingInProgressPod) the most frequently.