writing

By swindonwoody

Thu, 01 Sep 2022
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i was just sitting here thinking to myself and i am sure like many of you, we have kept what we write a secret. now as for me I was shy about what i wrote for years and being honest here i wrote songs ( not famous ones) and then poems ( you could say they are the same) and even now i make sure it's just a poem on here. but words are words on here. i feel if someone can take something from what i write that is amazing to me. i think writing is a lonely act to do. i mean no one else can look inside your mind but you. it's not like if you were building a brick wall and someone comes along and said  "oh that's not right" and show you how.  you have to work it out yourself. omg, if look at something i wrote when i was 12 ouch i sometimes would like to crawl into a corner and hide it away. but no it was the part of the learning i say. i say just keep at it and at it write what you feel no one can copy anyone else works in the way they write. we all have to find our own path.

Oh yes and the spelling word check on here is good but omg the English language has to many words that sound the same but are spelled very differently.  a good tick I do like everyone is to ask google for the right spelling( and even sometimes it's get it wrong lol). so just do what you feel. and we got youtube to go to to help us.

so when you on your own writing  and feeling omg it just me think of all the others who are right now sitting there writing or like me should be at nearly11.45pm going to bed. if anyone has an idea you like me to do a poem on just say  its get my mind going not sure where it going but its goes somewhere lol 

 

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Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Needing to write is so important to me too, always has been as far back as I can remember. It was always my favourite subject at school, but I was always very slow, so got put to the bottom of the class. But since I've been on abc tales, which I joined in 2010, I've come on in leaps and bounds with the help of many writers that have come and gone. It's sad when we loose those writers that have become so precious to us. 

Writing I agree can be a lonely passtime, but I do enjoy my own company, and feel so engrossed when writing, it takes me away to a place where I'm happy.

It's always good to know I'm not alone, which is why for me abc tales is so important...long may it go on.

You take care.

Jenny.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Submitted by swindonwoody on

HI jenny 

yes, you are so right in the words that you say. i love English too at school. i still have my old school book and a story in one of them i did when i was 14  one day i might put it on here and hide it ( it will show what teenage writing in the 70s lol) it is a good job ABC tales is here for us. my handwriting is so bad even i cant understand it lol i can write with both hands so maybe my brain is like that mix-up lol

yes this site is an outlet for us all.  i remember years ago someone i knew show me some of their writing she said to me, oh everyone loves it. but i told her the truth to try and help her. her work did not flow.. is that what editing is all about taking out the bad bits and someone saying hey try it this way for a better outcome. i can't remember how long i have been on this site. but when i found it i was thinking hell bells i go for it they won't bite( if they do i bite back lol) i will put some things on and see where it takes them .

it is sad when someone dieds or are not longer able to write on here. but their work is in cycber space for all to see and discover. i like being on my own too i think it's a thing with writers we are very antisocial people in a way when we are writing as we are lost in what we do.

many a time a poem comes into my head and two seconds later it is gone unless i write it down.

but the community here is great.

opp see i was going to write more than and it flew out of my head lol

you take care too 

maggie 

maggie