And Suddenly She Found Herself...

And suddenly she found herself leading a writers/authors social and support group that continues to grow.

WhipCity Wordsmiths is now 14 months in existence. The group enthusiastically encompasses a range of writing styles, genres, techniques, and voices while wholeheartedly embracing a talented collective of authors and writers. (Holy moly! I never saw this coming!) I am excited and happy about how this group is going and growing. I'm looking forward to September when the monthly meetings resume. I just wish I had the energy to hold two meetings a month so that everyone has an opportunity to attend a meeting. When a group of authors/writers get together, the creativity is electric. What's that buzz? It's just group members sparking off one another, filling their inspiration meters to the brim.

I absolutely love it!

Writing is a rather solitary endeavor. No one can get inside your mind and help you write. You just have to sit down on your own and do it. I've done exactly that since elementary school. However, it's a good feeling to be able to sit and chat with other authors and writers who share that solitary endeavor, sitting at the computer or in some cases typewriter, or with an open notebook before you, pen in hand...we share a familiar base point. We share a passion. Where our imaginations, our intelligence, our intrigues, and our ideas lead us sets us as points on a star map. At meetings we can connect the stars on the map with the little blazing trails of connectivity called sharing common experiences. It makes us feel less alone in the expansive universe. That is writer's therapy- to sit and talk to a group of people who actually understand what you're talking about. We are not laboring alone in the void.

And suddenly she found herself feeling connected in a way she never expected to be.

And suddenly she found herself with friends and acquaintances she cherishes dearly.

And suddenly she found herself smiling.

And suddenly....well...you get the idea.

She did something she loved and made it even better.