The last two weeks I’ve struggled
to find something to write about, which is why my blogs haven’t been as regular
as they could have been. Tonight blogging wasn’t on my to do list, however, I
thought I just had to get this done.
About a year ago I went to
CrimeFest in Bristol and among others, I met Sally Spedding, and in
conversation she suggested that I try my local Writers Circle, she even gave me
some contact details, only a problem was, I didn’t get around to using them
before my email account threw a fit and deleted everything in my inbox for no
good reason and the details were lost. So on Monday, I was on the
internet and for no good reason I looked up Swansea Writers Circle, the link
that came up to the council’s website, which linked to Swansea and District
Writers Circle and gave me all the details I needed. The site told me
that they met on the first Wednesday of the month, so today I went.
The only other writers circle
I’ve ever been to was in Cardiff and probably more than twenty years ago, so I
was expecting the same sort of thing, people reading their work and other
critiquing it. But no.
Got there and there was an agenda and a speaker. I was
quite surprised. The speaker was Melanie Lloyd, a woman who writes about
boxing, she had two books out entitled Sweet Fighting Man and Sweet
Fighting Man Vol 2. When I realised she was going to be talking about
boxing, I can’t say I was overly enthralled, but she was a really good
speaker. Absolutely enthusiastic about the subject, Melanie was a joy to
listen to. And though she spoke of loads of boxers I’d never heard of,
she had interesting stories to tell that I enjoyed listening. Thing was,
I’ve been trying to work on a noire flavour book and recently read Choke
Hold by
Christa Faust, and two of the three lead characters are boxers, so some of the
stories Melanie told, seemed very resonant with that book, so obviously Ms
Faust and Ms Lloyd have both got a talent for evoking the same imagery,
emotions and reactions.
Strangely enough, I entered and won a prize in the raffle, but since I
won a bottle of bottle of wine and I’m trying to give up drinking (not exactly
working, but I’m trying), I suggested that it be pulled again, and it went to
the other first timer there. Nice that huh?
Anyway, feels good to feel enthusiastic about writing again, so thanks to
the Swansea and District Writers Circle for that.
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