This Blog Thing

It's been a while since I posted anything on here - or indeed anywhere else. No particular reason for this - just that other things have got in the way. For all those writing experts who insist that a writer should write something every day all I can say is, well that's the kind of writer (or, non-writer) that I have turned out to be.

For the last year I have been a member of a writing group in my home city. It's run by a woman who is both a published novelist and a former creative writing teacher. Basically we have been getting a creative writing course delivered to us free of charge, but now she has decided to step down because she is going to do a full time PhD at a university in Wales. I admire her greatly for taking this on - she is probably in her early seventies - though it's not the kind of thing that I would want to do myself.

This means that if the writing group is going to continue, us group members will need to take on more responsibility for running it, and I feel that I can hardly be a member of the group if I'm not doing any writing. This would be a shame because what the group has given me, prompted by my teachers emphasis on character driven fiction, is a whole stock of characters who are waiting for something to happen to them.