IWSG November 2025: Multiverse Con Recap & Writer Dream Life

Purpose: To share and encourage. Writers can express doubts and concerns without fear of appearing foolish or weak. Those who have been through the fire can offer assistance and guidance. It’s a safe haven for insecure writers of all kinds! Posting: The first Wednesday of every month is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day. Post your thoughts on your own blog. Talk about your doubts and the fears you have conquered. Discuss your struggles and triumphs. Offer a word of encouragement for others who are struggling. Visit others in the group and connect with your fellow writer - aim for a dozen new people each time - and return comments. This group is all about connecting! Let’s rock the neurotic writing world! Our Twitter handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG.

The awesome co-hosts for the November 5 posting of the IWSG are Jennifer Lane, Jenni Enzor, Renee Scattergood, Rebecca Douglass, Lynn Bradshaw, and Melissa Maygrove!

The following link will allow you to peruse everyone in the Blog Hop.

Link | IWSG Blog Hop Participants 

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November 5 question - When you began writing, what did you imagine your life as a writer would be like? Were you right, or has this experience presented you with some surprises along the way?

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Hello, friends!

It might be really hard to follow my October entry. So many crazy things happened in September with The NoSleep Podcast episode airing and winning the Georgia Romance Writers Maggie Award.

That being said October was a bit of a crazy month, and I'm going to gush a lot about Multiverse, but I will eventually get to the monthly question!

TW: pet loss if you want to skip over the next paragraph...

I got home from the romance con to my dear ancient cat Evy not feeling her best. She'd been in my life since 2009, but she was an adult when I found her so it was possible she was 20+ years old. I knew her health was declining but it happened very rapidly in the end and they found what they believed to be kidney cancer when we took her to the vet, so I had to let her go. It's not quite been a month, and I'm still dealing with bouts of grief. The other cats are trying to fill the empty place on my lap (because she was literally always in my lap) but when you've had that connection for almost half of your life, it's hard. I hope she's eating all the cheese and salmon and ice cream across the rainbow bridge now.

But enough moping...

I had to pull myself together to get ready for Multiverse Con 2025!

You might remember from the last blog, that I served as Co-Director for the WRITE Track for the first time, with my fellow co-director, Kyoko M.

It was such an amazing weekend!

I love this little con with my WHOLE heart. If you're in the area, or want to make plans, I highly recommend coming to check us out in 2026.

THE GUESTS OF HONOR NEXT YEAR ARE INSANE.

It's not been put up on any official channels yet, but it's not a secret anymore. I'll just mention that one of them has a show that's been made based on her books that airs on Apple TV.

I was so proud to be a part of Multiverse this year and our fundraising efforts for The Trevor Project. Through generous donations and the luck of the con happening during a big match period, we raised over $15,000!!! Small con, big impact!

I got to be on a panel about Breaking into Traditional Publishing Today and another one where I moderated a panel on the PLAY track where we talked about Sportsball! So there really is something for everyone.

My favorite part of the con, however, was that the creators of Homestar Runner, The Brothers Chap, were guests and I got to attend a Trogdor Drawing Class hosted by none other than Strong Bad himself! Some of you may think this paragraph is written in another language, but I promise it makes sense to people of a certain age on the internet in the very early 2000s.

And here's more pics I took with friends over the weekend and our shirt designs! It was the year of the Kraken. Next year is Dragon! Our badge art was by the Guest of Honor John Jennings and the shirts was by artist Ariel Burgess.

Anyway, you should come check out Multiverse 2026! It was a wonderful time of hanging out with other authors and being inspired and networking and just downright refreshing fun. I was so glad my author friend Beth Deweese attended and that some of my friends from way back in the day when I used to live in South Carolina came to check out Multiverse for the first time.

If you'd be interested in being a guest, applications open on January 1st! That also includes applications for the Dealer Hall, Art Show, and Early Bird Pre-Registration prices! I talk a lot about the writing track, but there's an amazing game room, horror track, sci-fi track, fantasy track, play track, art track, and so many other things to do.

On top of all that, I managed to squeeze in being interviewed by my friend David Payne on his Twitch Channel prior to Multiverse. If you'd like to hear me chatting about traditional publishing and more about Multiverse and random other things, you can catch a replay on YouTube!

Link || David Payne Interview Rosie J. Potter on YouTube

Let me just say, despite how much I loved Multiverse, I was very glad to get home and collapse on October 21st. I have a lot of irons in the fire right now, but I was able to take a teeny tiny break before I started working on things again. All of my crazy traveling to Atlanta once every three weeks for nearly 3 months straight is over and I get to stay home until Christmas. I'm glad to be stationary for a bit and not have plans coming up and get to dive back into writing. Although, I do have a lot of things on the horizon.

If you like writing sprints, this weekend I'll be streaming on Twitch as part of the One Hundred Hours of Writing event. Starting Thursday at 2pm EST and going until Monday at 6pm EST there will be 100 consecutive hours of writing sprints available!

I am personally hosting sprints from 6am-8am Friday, 8pm-10pm Friday, and 10pm-midnight Saturday.

For more information with the full schedule, check out the OHHOW link below, and follow my Twitch channel to see when I go live!

Link || OHHOW Website

Link || Rosie's Twitch Channel

November Question

Today's question asks: - When you began writing, what did you imagine your life as a writer would be like? Were you right, or has this experience presented you with some surprises along the way?

If you are still here and reading, I suppose I'll get to today's question.

Considering I really decided I wanted to be a published author around the age of 8, I had some insane dreams about what my life as a writer would be like. As an only child, I spent a lot of time with my imaginary friends and daydreaming in my room, and I had a very wild imagination. I very vividly remember scenarios where I pretended to be on Oprah or other news programs like The Today Show being interviewed for my amazing, award-winning, best-selling novel. This novel was so amazing, it was made into a TV show or a movie. The adaptations were up for awards. I got to help with the screenwriting and be on set for the filming. And, because I was also a musician and fancied myself a songwriter, I got to write and record the theme song for the movie and made myself a name as a musician as well.

Needless to say, I think Ali Hazelwood is currently living my writer dream life. 😂

I would still very much like this to be my writer dream life, and maybe I'll find that magic potion one day, but right now my dreams are slowly dying on submission.

What I never imagined was the amazing network of writers and friends who I'd meet along the way, and I'm not even published yet! Writing can be such a solitary journey, if we let it be, but I am a constant champion of the power of community as a writer. Not just for networking and hoping to swap readers with people, but for support through the long and arduous and often devastating process that is writing and trying to publish. I would not be nearly where I am today without these people in my life. I wouldn't be the director of a writing track at a con. I probably wouldn't have an agent. I wouldn't be avoiding breakdowns every time I get a rejection if I didn't have them to commiserate with about this entire exhausting process.

So while I do still hope I get to live that crazy dream that over-imaginative child Rosie imagined, I am extremely grateful for the writing life I've been able to have so far. And if I do get to be famous and be on a movie set and all that stuff some day, I can't wait to share that success with all the friends who helped me get there.

For now, I'd be happy to start making some money, get a trad publishing deal, and one day maybe be able to quit my dayjob.

Thanks for stopping by!

Let me know if anyone is participating in any November writing challenges and what your goals are for the month!

Looking forward to traversing the blog hop and reading about other people's dreams.

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For now,

Rosie J.

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