Bob's Write from the Start: Three Chords and the Truth

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, May 29, 2017

Three Chords and the Truth

One of the members of our WG (Writing Group) composes simple sounding verses with what appear to be homespun observations about everyday life's triumphs, silliness, misdirection and shortcomings.

Occasionally the rhymes are strained and sometimes the metre is off by a beat or two. The insights are, though, often both astonishing and arresting. Sometimes humorous, but more often presented with the tone of "I know many people see it that way but this is the way I see it."

It is often, is it not, the backwoods and the dropouts, the poor and the blue collar, the sequestered nd the ignored who have the gift of presenting complex human truths in Dollar Store tissue. Will Rogers. Albert Camus. Jeff Foxworthy. William of Occam. Emily Dickenson. Henry David Thoreau. Mark Twain.

Truth first. Technique second.

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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.