Well, it has certainly been a roller coaster of a ride for the England Rugby Team over the last month or so. From securing a place in the quarter-finals after having their last game cancelled due to Typhoon Hagibis. After an impressive performance in beating the Australians, there was probably the best game of the tournament when they hammered the reigning champions in the semi-finals. Sadly it all came to nought in the Final when they were overcome by a mightly impressive South African side who deservedly became the 2019 World Champions.
What has this to do with my writing? Nothing really, but it did mean that I hardly put pen to paper sadly.
However today, I have been working on my short story for the Fish Publications (
https://www.fishpublishing.com) short story competition at the end of the month. This is a 5000word short story of which currently I have about 3000 words. I have tried out the opening at Ottery Writers which went down rather well. I have another section for them tomorrow night and hopefully, now I have got a decent twist for the ending.
So for my little offering this week, I have chosen the letter I had published in Writers Magazine a couple of months ago. I have also had one published in Writers Forum. I feel quite chuffed to have been published in two prodigious writing publications.
My journey to work on a Friday
morning invariably took me to a nearby superstore to purchase a bag of freshly
made doughnuts as a treat for the office and with time spare I had a wander
around and regularly ended up in the magazine aisle. This is where I spied my
first copy of the Writing Magazine.
Since then I have gone from expectantly waiting for the latest edition to turn up
on the shelves to becoming an avid subscriber waiting for it to drop through
the letterbox. Now, much to the ire of my wife’s tidiness genes, I have a pile
of numerous back copies.
I now find that I am once again
reading through the pages of the Writers
Magazine, this time with more purpose and tenacity.
It has been a dream of mine to be a writer and
I have now been able to start a writing course which I hope will give me a
professional edge to my fledgeling experiences of having a few letters published
in national newspapers and my contributions to the local cricket scene in the
local paper.
The hints, lessons and experiences
are innumerable and alongside my course are proving so inspiring for me at the
start of a fledgeling writing career.
My
journey has a lot more to it than a bag of doughnuts however you may well see
them referred to in a
future article, short stories or even that book that is
rattling around in my head one day.
