Always a writer?

Many years ago I wanted to write and I did, some of my scribblings were in main stream magazines, but as time went on I just did not have the drive or the time to carry on. Yes computers were around, just but life takes over if you let it, and that still holds true today. Yes I know all those die hard people use the trusted pen / pencil and paper. But if your spelling is not great you will find you use a lot of paper, and half your time looking in the dictionary to find the correct spelling. A correctly set up computer will highlight this for you.

I do use pen and paper when I wake up in a sweat in the middle of the night with blurry eyes, a great story in my head that I don't want to lose,.I find myself writing in capitals even with my glasses on as my eyes are still asleep. I did quite a few short courses on writing over the year and did enjoy every single one of the courses, but they all came to an end, then I was on my own again. So just over 14 months ago I decided to join a local writing club to give me focus, and if you like a reason to write. In my head I was always a writer but on paper I was not.

I had bought many how to write books, but never found the time to read many of them, I was always at work or just wasting time watching television. I don't watch much television at all now, I would get rid of it, but the wife and children would go ape.(Mad) So I tuck my self away in my office with the rabbit and the dog, visited by the two cats and sometimes humans, but only sometimes.

This is Garfield, he is in one of my stories, I have had him since he was born, I still have his mother Alfie, he is 7 this year and she is 8 years old. (2014)

So I joined this writing group, not because I need help to write no, and I hope that day never comes. It was to give me a deadline to work to, not that anything would happen if I turned up without anything to read.

I now craved information on how to get my work out there, I love only having two weeks to do the home work. I get a word or sentence then I have to write a short story to fit the word count and subject, I then once read at the club I extend it in to a much longer bit of writing, this works on so many different levels.

Now I have the bug as they say, I'm writing more and more, I have written more in the past 12 months that I had in the 12 years before. Now because of the computer age, I can store, send, and email my work as well as editing and re write my work. I am just glad that I can type 40 wpm, I learnt that over 28 years ago, but that's another story.

I think that is enough for today.

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