Bob's Write from the Start: Catch Up

Bob's Write from the Start

Bob’s Write from the Start, a blog sharing the roller coaster ride of this renewing writer’s feelings and actual experiences, began March 2017. That January, I began with a two-sentence contribution to a local Writing Group. I am now a Guest Columnist for a local paper and have contributed to small and online magazines. My comments for new and renewing writers? Start by starting. Join a writing group. You are unique but not alone. Once you start work, you will not be in Kansas anymore.

Monday, April 24, 2017

Catch Up

Just to recap - For the purposes of our blog, a writer is a person who writes to enrich the lives of those who will read your work and your own life as well.

I have shared my goal -- when someone happens upon my words, they are glad they paused and read them. I suggested that, if you set your own goal, you will clear much of the static out of your head that is getting in your way.

Third, I suggested you do your very best to find a
Writers' Group and join it.

One of the reasons to join a Group that we haven't talked about is that being in one with regular meetings keeps you writing. Like one of our members shared with us, she went from having a head filled with potential ideas to a binder filled with actual work.

[To be Continued.]

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Name: Bob's Write From The Start

Location: Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

Born, raised and living in Sarnia, Ontario, Bob Boulton began writing poetry, short stories and humorous articles for his high school newspaper in the period just after dinosaurs roamed the earth. His article on the mysteries of the Chess Club was particularly well-received. Bob’s excruciatingly naive teenage sonnet was published with positive mention in the high school yearbook. In University he wrote pretty much indecipherable essays on Existentialism and Phenomenology. Then, early in his working career, Bob also wrote short feature articles in the now-defunct (not his fault) Weston York Times. For this, he was paid $5.00 per article, which didn’t quite cover his transportation and parking costs. Then after a short break of thirty-five or forty years as an executive and leadership coach, Bob reactivated his passion for writing. The alternatives he considered were learning to yodel or trying to play the bagpipes. Bob’s loving and supportive family voted enthusiastically, and quickly, for writing.