Welcome readers, writers, authors, and bloggers!
We're glad you're here! It's the First Wednesday of the
month; when we celebrate IWSG
Day in the form of a blog hop featuring members and guests of
the Insecure
Writer's Support Group. Founded by author Alex Cavanaugh (Thank you,
Captain!) and fostered by like-minded associates, IWSG is a comfortable place
to share views and literary news as we record our journeys. Check out our
monthly newsletter here.
The awesome co-hosts
for this month’s posting of the IWSG are: Jennifer Lane, Jenni Enzor, Renee Scattergood, Rebecca Douglass, Lynn
Bradshaw, and Melissa Maygrove!
Today’s entirely optional question: When you began writing what did you
imagine your life as a writer would be like?
The only thing
better than reading a good story is writing one. I knew that after reading my
first favorite book – I think it was “Miss Lollipop’s Lion). Later, I carried “The
Velvet Room” around with me long after I’d finished reading it as if setting it
aside would somehow lessen the impact the story had on me. As if putting it on
a shelf would cancel the book tour. I couldn’t let that happen to any book, to
any writer. My solution was to write often. Let no bookshelf go unlined with books
for – and about – any and everything!
How hard can it be?
I imagined a writer’s journey
to be paved with fewer potholes (wherein hide all the things you better not say,)
I imagined many more filling stations (for when inspiration invariably runs
low), a glove box that refills itself with snacks – oh! As well as a thermos of
Iced Tea (or coffee on cold days). Turns out, writing wasn’t the same (as I’d
so naively imagined) as a road trip with Grandma, but it can be even better. If
you write it right!
“Books have a unique way of stopping time
at a particular moment and saying: “Let’s not forget this,” ~ Dave Eggers
Happy writing!
