Bob's Write from the Start: And It's Still A Long Time Except For . . .

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.

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

And It's Still A Long Time Except For . . .

. . . this Writers Group Observation.

I shared my agony (OK, a little Trumpian exaggeration and yes, Don, I know how you feel about parenthetical comments) with our Writers Group facilitator and she gave me advice which, for the moment at least, I have no intention of following. (More fool I. Hi Don.)

But (a big butt as a childhood chum used to say. Hi again, Don.) it did spark a related thought that I would not have had otherwise and allowed me to submit a short work for publication. It is something I wrote awhile ago "sharpening the sword", never thinking I would submit it. But (see big etc. above) I added a little something, made some changes, combined this advice with another seemingly unrelated suggestion from another Group member, and mailed it.

The point is (finally) participating actively in my WG has opened an informed possibility, triggered by her comment) I never would have had otherwise.

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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.