...according to WriteOn Joliet member Tom Hernandez as he expressed his appreciation for the writing group at our first Thanksiving potluck celebration this evening hosted by Ken McGee, another member.
Much like the Marchellis family in Bryony, Tom's family has a tradition where everyone has an opportunity to offer thanks for certain blessings received in the past year.
I found Tom's comment interesting because I have privately thought similar thoughts. By the world's standards, serious writers are not gregarious social butterflies. Our society is the privacy of our thoughts and that interior world we attempt to recreate on paper for the exterior world to meet.
How ironic that, in the two years since Kristina Skaggs and I founded the group, we'd truly become a group, bound by love for the writing craft, because ages, backgrounds, and individual interests are so varied, they alone would be sufficient to separate us, again by the average clique standards.
By ours, those dynamics enhance and strengthen the very fabric of our group and foster the spirit of encouragement that is ever present at our meetings.
Right on, WriteOn!
Much like the Marchellis family in Bryony, Tom's family has a tradition where everyone has an opportunity to offer thanks for certain blessings received in the past year.
I found Tom's comment interesting because I have privately thought similar thoughts. By the world's standards, serious writers are not gregarious social butterflies. Our society is the privacy of our thoughts and that interior world we attempt to recreate on paper for the exterior world to meet.
How ironic that, in the two years since Kristina Skaggs and I founded the group, we'd truly become a group, bound by love for the writing craft, because ages, backgrounds, and individual interests are so varied, they alone would be sufficient to separate us, again by the average clique standards.
By ours, those dynamics enhance and strengthen the very fabric of our group and foster the spirit of encouragement that is ever present at our meetings.
Right on, WriteOn!
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