Writing

[ballibeg]

Lots of readers but any writers amongst us?

So difficult a step from knowing what you like to read to writing something other people want to read and share.

Dave

[Sheherezade]

A few, yes. We've got some members with novels published, and a few more with half a novel in a drawer.

We also have a few who write professionally.

I'm one with the novel in a drawer! I try to do National Novel Writing Month each year but have only finished once. I'm great at plotting and starting. Not so good at finishing or endings!

We should start a writers group.


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[ballibeg]

That'd be interesting. I've one book out there but discussing 2nd with publisher. Contracts get very complicated especially as my interest is that the books raise money for charity.

Dave

[MsSassyBaskets]

I'm an organizational writer by day, a part-time grad student and creative writer by night. I have about a third of a novel in a drawer. I work on it regularly, mostly because it's free entertainment that keeps my brain working! I haven't put any of my creative work out "into the universe" yet. But it keeps me out of trouble.

[OrionGrad]

I write professionally about small business marketing and technology, but creative writing's never been my thing.

[WolfpackWife]

I'm finishing up my Master's degree in Technical and Professional Communication and have focused largely on technical writing and editing. I've not done much writing "for fun" since my undergrad days, but one of my post-graduate goals is to begin journaling again, which I think will serve as a jumping off point for more creative writing. I'm also hoping to restart my job search after I've finished graduate school and am hoping to find a technical writing/editing job.

[PrincessFiona]

I'm also one of the writers around here. I wrote for a mom's column a few years ago (local newspaper) and have also published a couple of things.

Kris

[MrsK]

That'd be interesting. I've one book out there but discussing 2nd with publisher. Contracts get very complicated especially as my interest is that the books raise money for charity.

Dave

What is your book about and for which charity do you raise money?

[ballibeg]

As a family we ended up in a media storm when my daughter blogged her school dinners. We wrote a book about it and raised money for Mary's Meals which gives free lunches to kids in developing countries to encourage them into education.

Dave

[diggitydot]

I don't know what school lunches are like in Scotland, but if they're anything like they are here in the US, that had to have been one gross blog. Poor kiddo. Good for her.

[OrionGrad]

Oh my gosh I remember hearing about that on the news over here in the U.S. a few years ago. Wow! Kudos to your daughter!

[poky]

OMG! I've been following your daughter since shortly after she started blogging! Loved the pictures of the visit to the new school kitchen you and she helped build! It's really a small world, isn't it?

[peggyfromwastate]

That's so awesome!

[Cleave]

Writer here. Started in newspapers and magazines; I was a columnist and culture writer for ten-ish years. I still do some newspaper and magazine work, but also now take on corporate clients and do business things - white papers mostly. It pay a lot better than newspaper work. I've taught a lot of writing, and published some bad poems, some great essays, a little fiction, and a variety of odds and ends.

Congrats on your daughter's blog. Sounds awesome.

[LadyFoot]

I try to do National Novel Writing Month each year but have only finished once. I'm great at plotting and starting. Not so good at finishing or endings!

I did NaNoWriMo for the first time this year! I finished, but it was sort of a stretch. I started a few days late, so I wrote a good amount of gobbledegook to get up to that many words. I can't wait to do it again next year! It was a blast!