Saying Goodbye to a Writing Group (sort of)
Yet another of the changes I'm facing.
As I continue to face changes in my personal life, I and a group of people I’ve been proud to call my friends recently said goodbye to an era in our lives. Although it is not directly related to my move across the state, it’s hard not to think of what happened last Saturday as part of those changes.
Returning to the River
Hi, everyone. I know I promised you some original writing, maybe even fiction, this weekend. Let me assure you it is coming - at 5 p.m. Central Time today. However, I wanted to take a moment now and let everyone know about some personal news. It turns out I’m soon to be on the move, and both my wife and I will …
Writing and Location
As I mentioned before here, the art of writing is not for the most part obsessed with gear. That is, most writers don’t obsess over the pens or notebooks they use, or the typewriters or computers they use, to do their work. Some people might have a preference as to what materials they might use (like my obsession with Mole…
For the past three years, shortly after I moved to south central Iowa, I’ve been a member of a writer’s group in Des Moines known as the Iowa Writers’ Corner (IWC). It had been a longstanding writing group (I am embarrassed to admit I do not know exactly how long it had been in operation, except it has been several years) of fiction writers, essayists, and poets, mainly from the greater Des Moines area. I was currently the member who had to drive the farthest to make it to our monthly meetings, but writers’ groups are few and far between in south central Iowa, so Des Moines was my best bet.
I’ve previously talked about the importance of writing groups in my life and my continuing development…
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