iWrite

OK here’s the thing.  Lots of people say that blogging isn’t really writing.  I disagree, but then I’m fairly new to all of this.  It all comes down to how you view things.  Before I started blogging the only thing I really wrote was poetry.  Poetry was my thing and I can still rattle one-off at the drop of a hat – I’m not saying it’s any good mind, but boy can I get things to rhyme.  Anyhow I’ve been thinking….. In the summer last year I bravely took my first creative writing class.  It was very, very scary and I felt incredibly brave.  The class was taken by a teacher who taught me in Glasgow when I was 15.  So years later I found my life full circle back in his writing class.  This time though I was a fully fledged adult but inside I was still a petrified 15-year-old wondering whether or not I would be able to deliver the goods.

The thing is though even though it was scary to sit in that group, put pen to paper and THEN have to read you work out to EVERYONE I really enjoyed it.  I also discovered that when I’m put in that kind of situation I am surprised with what I come up with.  I also marvelled at what everyone else came up with.  It was just a joy.

Of late I’ve realised that I really miss my creative writing class.  Unfortunately I was unable to sign up for the next round of classes because it was just too much with my studies.  But I miss it.

Lately, as I’ve been walking to work my mind has been prompting me to write – to be creative. Now there are a few bloggers who read my posts who are also writers.  Actually you’re all writers because you blog – there I’ve said it – enough of this snobbery.  However there are some bloggers who read my posts who have gone the extra mile.  Carridwen and her fabby cauldron is a one woman literary powerhouse, Lorna with her laugh out loud tales is inches away from being published and Lynda kindly invites me to her book launches.  Can you believe I have a friend whose book I can download on a Kindle.  If I had a Kindle that is.  But how cool is that!

So, this writing lark.  Ok I’ll be honest.  I don’t know if I’m any good.  What I do know is that back in my writing class where you had feel the fear and write like hell the bottom line was you’ll never know if you don’t dip your toe in the water.  I’ve decided to hatch a plan……..

If I can’t sign up to attend a creative writing class how about having a virtual one.  My plan is once a week write a post with a wee thing I’ve written.  Rather than being here on my own some in this virtual creative writing I thought a few of you might sign up to it.  It being my ‘Something for the Weekend’.  It can be a story, a poem whatever really all you have to do is post what you’ve written on Saturday.  I’m up for trying it for four Saturdays. What do you think?  Are you up for it?

I’m going to give it a go.  I might not be the next JK Rowling but hell a gal’s got to start somewhere.