The older I get, the faster the time goes. I know you’ve heard that before. I’m not sure why it feels that way, but it does. Lilac City Rochester Writers has closed out another year of presentations, peer critiques, and our annual year-end pot-luck gathering. I feel it has been a year of growth, knowledge expansion, and good writing.
Personally, I joined a fourth writing group; Women Writing the West. I mention it because soon after joining, I went on a music cruise where I met an artist who is married to a full-blood Houma Native American. Because of the author/speaker I met through WWW, I knew about the tribe he mentioned. You should have seen his eyes light up when I knew where his wife was from. The point of this verse. One can expand their knowledge of life while they expand the craft of writing by belonging to multiple groups. I recommend it. I’ve added a 99-word flash piece that I wrote to demonstrate a story spine.
My Networking Reality by Sue Spitulnik
As a girl, I dreamed of being an author.
But, after high school, I became a military wife writing letters home instead of a novel.
Years later, I started a blog. An avid reader from South Africa discovered it and led me to Carrot Ranch.
I enjoyed a Charli-led retreat in Vermont and became friends with another author who introduced me to Women Writing the West.
After a WWW conference where I heard Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer speak, I met an artist on the Big Easy Cruise whose eyes lit up because I knew about Houma and Choctaw Native Americans.
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