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Hello! I am very new to the writing game and have only been writing for four years since my hubby passed away. It is something I do every day and it gives me great pleasure. I have written a little poem wondering just what it is like being on a forum like this. It seems fun and so full of interesting people.
Well! Here it is:
A Fresh Bottle of Ink
Hello one and all!
I hope you hear my call?
I am new to this game of writing
But my imagination seems to be fighting
I would so like to chat and talk
To folks whose pens on pages walk
If you would have me
It would thrill gladly
Please say I can join your Forum
Because that would be so awesome!
I hope someone would like to chat to me soon.
Comments
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Welcome Niblet, I don't think anyone has introduced themselves in verse before.
Would gladly subscribe to this site. No problem. Haven't checked out everything yet as was so interested in talking to other writers. I have had one poem published on Poetry 24. And have submitted a short story to Mslexia hopefully to be published in the next issue of their magazine.
I haven't had any lessons in writing or belong to a group. My son did a comprehensive course at college and he advises me.
I read.
My blog : annesgoodpoems.com
Just simple poetry about life.
I would so love chatting all about the subject. My favorite writers are strong women writers such as Mae West, Phylis Chesler, Bell Hooks, Doris Lessing and Zora Neale Hurston to name but a few.
I hope I am not boring you all by this? Any come back would be grateful.
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Welcome to the forum
The office was freezing today!
*cheers*
Me too, originally.
Learning a lot though!
We all write different things. I'm a children's poet.
I write most days. Mostly short fiction for women's magazines.
It was extremely snowy between Aberystwyth and New Radnor.
I write when I think the world is due a treat. Crap, mostly
Every month we have a One Word Challenge, where a single word is supplied by the previous month's winners. Anyone can enter a (up to) 200-word story and/or a (up to) 40-line poem on the theme given. You can have a look at what some of our members have already written if you click on the thread. This month's theme is 'New'. You are very welcome to enter it yourself.
Spike Milligan just wrote silly poems, not necessarily for children, but used in anthologies, and Ben Kingsley is, I think, an actor, never heard of him as a children's poet.
oh, edit to put in my website;
http://www.poetlizbrownlee.co.uk
We lived in a very modern flat, which the developers could not sell as it was too expensive - it had underfloor heating, and my mum and dad were lucky to rent it. When, years later, I visited the man who was out best man and his partner, they lived round the corner, so we went to see it again. I can remember the whole layout of that flat.
My only problem with Wales is the signposting on major roads is pretty poor.
For example, many competitions would consider publication on your blog to be published and you would not be able to enter it in the comp.
If it has been printed in a writing group newsletter that doesn't go online and is only handed out to a dozen people then most placed would not consider that published.
It would not count as published if you were for instance writing a letter or email to someone to give your CV.
I put stuff on my blog and website which I then send out to get really published in books, and in the children's poetry world that is fine. They only occasionally stipulate that they want new work, ie not published in book before, and they are usually not even worried about that. You just have to give them the details of where and when for the final book so first publication is attributed.
In the adult world things are slightly different. You need to get published in magazines to get your name known, and to give yourself a track record. Similar to children's you need about 10 years of being published in magazines/leaflets/pamphlets/anthologies (anthologies in the children's world) before you will be considered for your own single voice book.