Now I am always fascinated by writers and the art of writing.
You start with a blank screen and in the course of a short while the words tumble out creating everything from fantasy and fiction to the story of someone’s life, or the joys of making pesto.
It doesn’t really matter what he subject matter is because there will be an audience.
And in the age of the internet, social media and self publishing the opportunities to “gain your voice” are there for pretty much everyone.
Of course anyone who could pick up a pencil could make a start but for many the stumbling block would always be the publishers who guarded, and still guard the portals to the publishing world.
They and their friends would argue that they performed the sifting process, and after all if they were investing time and money in an author, then there needed to be both a quality to the writing and a chance of profit.
But I suspect this meant that much talent was lost. And that loss extended not only to writers, but artists and anyone who wanted to express themselves.
Social media has given many of these a platform and while the cynical might assert that this has given the world more than a fair share of cat pictures and rants about double parking in Basildon it has also given us the chance to enjoy much hidden talent.
And that brings me to my friend Lois and her new venture The Moving Dragons Write.
I have known Lois for nearly half a century and in all that time and even before we met Lois has been a writer, and now combines that occupation with leading writing groups and will be participating in a forthcoming literary festival
The Moving Dragons Writes began as a writer’s blog with Lois, Richard Kelford and John Watts which has become a platform for other writers as well and has morphed into a book which is a collection of their writing.
The rest I will leave to them, just pointing you towards the link to the book, and blog site which is available on Word Press, Facebook, Titter and Instagram
Picture; cover of the Moving Dragon
*The Moving Dragon, http://amzn.eu/i7Zxut1
You start with a blank screen and in the course of a short while the words tumble out creating everything from fantasy and fiction to the story of someone’s life, or the joys of making pesto.
It doesn’t really matter what he subject matter is because there will be an audience.
Of course anyone who could pick up a pencil could make a start but for many the stumbling block would always be the publishers who guarded, and still guard the portals to the publishing world.
They and their friends would argue that they performed the sifting process, and after all if they were investing time and money in an author, then there needed to be both a quality to the writing and a chance of profit.
But I suspect this meant that much talent was lost. And that loss extended not only to writers, but artists and anyone who wanted to express themselves.
Social media has given many of these a platform and while the cynical might assert that this has given the world more than a fair share of cat pictures and rants about double parking in Basildon it has also given us the chance to enjoy much hidden talent.
I have known Lois for nearly half a century and in all that time and even before we met Lois has been a writer, and now combines that occupation with leading writing groups and will be participating in a forthcoming literary festival
The Moving Dragons Writes began as a writer’s blog with Lois, Richard Kelford and John Watts which has become a platform for other writers as well and has morphed into a book which is a collection of their writing.
The rest I will leave to them, just pointing you towards the link to the book, and blog site which is available on Word Press, Facebook, Titter and Instagram
Picture; cover of the Moving Dragon
*The Moving Dragon, http://amzn.eu/i7Zxut1
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