Bob's Write from the Start: Moving On

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.

Friday, May 7, 2021

Moving On

Well, it's time I think to figure out a useful way to wrap up this blog. My hopes, were and are, to produce something ("musings" DH calls them) uniquely useful to those beginning to write or renewing their writing life.

There are many sites around where skills can be learned, priorities considered, trends commented on and so forth. What I found missing in my own efforts was "What's it like to be doing this writing thing? Am I delusional? Have others thought this or that, right or wrong?" (Or, in the words of Waylon Jennings about Hank Williams' career, "Are you sure Hank done it this way?")

After 5 or 6 yers of plugging away with a smidgeon or two of improvement and finding myself in at least the right neighbourhood of my own voice, my ability to help others because I too am a just-being-born writer is now past.

I'm not sure what my next stage is, but I'm guessing it will be just as painful, joyful and interesting.

For my upcoming final one or two blog posts, I'll put together a few sentences of what I may have learned, for myself at least, along the way.

Cheers. Bob.

1 Comments:

At May 8, 2021 at 9:48 AM , Don Herald said...: Next steps? Perhaps a new blog with the title: 'from where i sit on the beside the fast lane.'

Or how about: 'just wait, please, i'll be along in a minute.'

Or maybe: 'been there, doing that, collecting the t'shirts to prove it.'

Here's one more: 'Ready. Fire. Aim.'

Sorry to see the passing of 'Bob's Write From The Start.' As an ardent follower, i often thought it should really be - 'Bob's Write From The Heart.'

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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.