I’m back. Not that I was ever gone but none the less I am here at my blog with at the very least an update and possible a promise to be a more regular contributor to my blog!
Life has an amazing way of getting in the way of a writer’s lifestyle. I have no actual one single excuse for not sticking with my plan for this blog – other than the excuse of life is busy. I do write in many places including another blog or two but this one is dear to me as it is on writing. I intended this blog to be for writers and about writing and have been too busy to even take the time to write about being too busy to write!
I do plan to publish the intended book named for the blog, Inklings On Writing, and perhaps this winter life will grant me some time to complete the project and share it with the many supporters of my work here. I intend it to be an inspirational journey of the process of writing and am so grateful to the many readers who have shared their inspirational moments along with their writing woes and in turn have encouraged me to keep writing, even when life gets in the way.
This past year I have moved to a new city and in trying to connect to a writing group quickly discovered there was no such group. I decided to start a group and launched the facebook page, scribbled a few invites to a monthly meeting on blackboards in downtown coffee shops and am thrilled to say that in 6 months time we have a vibrant group of over 20 writers and growing. The group is energizing and excited about the experiences of writing and growing each their own writer’s lifestyle and the camaraderie has been encouraging to each and every one of us in the group.
Each member has a unique story to tell but share a common goal of finding that precious time. As writers we all struggle to find a space to allow the silence to set in and the creative energy to flow from the scrambled clutter in a busy head to the calming sense of pulling out the words and getting them to paper before they are lost in the day-to-day frenzy of life getting in the way. With summer on us the group is adamant to keep meeting monthly and is even taking the meetings to the outdoors with evening fresh air meetings with new members showing up each month. The group is of every genre and every level and direction but the common thread of the love of writing and the desire to write every chance one gets is the glue of the group.
Where ever you live and write if you feel the loneliness of the writing world or a wavering commitment to your writing lifestyle I strongly suggest you find a group or grow your own. The instant belonging and encouragement to write is a plus but the knowing that others out there are as busy at life as you but still manage to show up at least once a month because is encouraging. They too feel the tug of life on one side and the draw to writing on the other and struggle in a good way to find that time to create.
And in writing this I too will try to stay more tugged into my writing lifestyle and promise to write more encouraging Inklings On Writing at this blog – as well as keeping up at my antique site blog at www.Inktiques.com and my new lifestyle blog coming shortly at www.LandlockedCottage.com
 Write often, 
 Michelle