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October 22nd, 2008
Hello all! *waves* Sorry, I know it’s been a few days but I’ve been pretty sore lately with my back and all besides- the NaNo is coming up. How can I not be running around like a chicken with my head cut off? And enjoying it of course. :D
The NaNo chat room is turning out wonderfully! Took a tiny while to pick up but I’ve been in it a lot these past few days talking to other writers and having a great time getting to know them. Makes me a little sad though when I login and find out I’ve missed some of them but I can’t be in there all the time so hopefully I’ll catch them one of these times.
I’ve found two fellow NaNo’ers in my area (one really close by) who I know I’ll be meeting for sure this next month, the others… are a little more uncertain. A lot of them can’t come around till the end of the month which is alright but I was hoping to find a day we could all get together as a group. Oh, well though, we’ll figure it out in the end or I hope we will.
I’ve been thinking about an idea for the past six months or so… See, there aren’t any actual non-online writing groups in my area. Yeah, we have them in Michigan but they’re all down and upstate, the closest one costs a subscription fee of… well, let’s just say I wouldn’t pay it even if I could afford it. Anyways, I’ve been thinking about organizing my own writing group. I know if I really set my mind to it I could do it but- I don’t know. I’m still unsure of taking that final step and trying it out. I mean, if I try and it fails then either I learned one way not to go about it or I learn it’s not for me but either way it’s better not trying at all and possibly missing out on something good.
We’ll see. Any of you out there attend a writing group? Want to tell me about it? Please?
Today was pretty awesome. Picked up a friend of mind and hung out doing nothing in particular for several hours before her, Kei, and I went for a walk through the woods up to the Cemetery. I told them it was going to get dark before we got there and I was right too (!) but it’s alright because I had a flashlight with me so we walked around, in the black of night, reading gravestones and singing to the stars. It was wonderful!
Even better- we didn’t have to walk back. When we were done basking in the peace, the night, and the wilderness I called my mom-in-law and she came to get us. I was half asleep before we even got home so all in all it was a pretty awesome night. I brought my camera but I didn’t get any pictures because it was too dark and my batteries were still pretty low from our last excursion.
That reminds me (yes, this is going to be one of those random posts where I spring from topic to topic like a crazy lady) I made a photo video from all my recent wild life drives. It still needs a bit of clean up but I’m going to be putting it up here soon as well as a couple of other mini vids from this awesome scenic place I went to with Hunny the other day.
… This post has taken me like three days to write. My brain is all foggy and preoccupied so I’m just gonna leave it here and post it. :) Tomorrow I’m going to the museum. I’ll make a better post then.
Welcome back to blogging. This story is not bad at all. I think you can do better too since you can give us report about you’re museum visit. I’m anticipating for that.
the only “real-life/physical” writing groups i’ve been a part of were at uni about ten years ago. some were good; some not so. like most things in this life, i guess, the thing’s success or enjoyment depends upon the person (or people) you’re doing it with. ;-)
mostly, i just wanted to stop by to say, “Hi!”. :-D
Dave: :D Hi you! I tried to pay a visit to your blog recently but it wouldn’t let me read posts. I think it might have something to do with my browser but I’m not sure.
Indeed. I’ve heard a lot of good and bad things about writing groups but I don’t think anyone can judge them as a whole, each is different with different goals and different people. :)
*waves to you muchly* I’m glad to see you around I was starting to miss you.
Psychic: Sorry it’s taken me a bit to reply to you, your comment somehow got knocked into my spam pile for a bit. Works good most of the time but now and then it marks something wrong.
Yes, museum posts are coming soon. :) I’ve started writing them but there is just so much to tell! :) I hope to see you around from time to time!
written-whispers.com – cooooolest domain name)))
@ Adaleamowrola
Thankies very much! :) I don’t even know how I originally came up with it but when it popped into my head it stuck.