Hope everyone is well and keeping safe. I am sitting by the river in the sunshine as I write this. Sure makes me feel life is good. Indeed, I like to walk or sit in the park and such like, especially when the weather is so nice. Makes me forget all my worries and issues I have to struggle with most days. Indeed, that’s why I originally turned to writing, initially just poetry, then stories and song lyrics, as a way of coping and getting myself through some very dark times almost four years ago.
At first I shared my work with no one else. Eventually I shared my efforts with one or two close friends. I still didn’t consider myself “a writer.” Eventually, I got the bug and was writing constantly. One day I was speaking to one of these friends of mine, about how I often doubted what I came out with was any good, despite some complimentary remarks I had got back and she said to me “most writers feel that way.” Once she said that, that was the moment I suddenly realised I had become one a long time ago.
Soon after at Christmas 2019, another dear friend of mine got me a pen and pad with my name on as a gift and in my Christmas card she wrote how much she loved some of the things I had written. I really felt like I had succeeded then. That was a huge encouragement to me then and I set my sights on taking my writing to a wider audience. I’m not really there yet, of course, but I started this blog the following September. This Christmas she got me a tee shirt that has “I am a writer and any thing you say my be used in a story” written on the front. She really has been one of the people that continue to give me the greatest encouragement to carry on.
That leaves me in my current situation. I have some ideas floating around about how to try and get more of my work out there and to a bigger audience, more of which I will mention here in the months to come.
In the meantime I shall continue with my site and blog here and I will also be entering three of my songs into the “best lyrics” catagory at the upcoming 2021 UK song writing competition, which is held in partnership between the songwriters guild (of which I am a member) and the Brit school. Wish me luck!😊
Again, thanks to all of you who read, like, subscribe and send me feedback. It all means a lot to me.
All the best!
Rob
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