Since moving to South Carolina in September, I've been missing one very important part of my life:
I haven't written diddly squat.
Sure, a certain amount of this can be dismissed by the stresses of a cross country move, starting a new job, and being without my husband for the first three months. Now that he's here and I'm able to find my way around without having my hand held by my GPS device, it's time to refocus.
I've joined a writers' group I found on Meetup.com. This amazing website allows you to find other people who share your interests anywhere across the United States. For writers, this is particularly valuable because writing is a largely solitary activity.
For me, the strength of these groups is in seeing how other people's minds work. For example, everyone in the group looks at the same photograph and writes whatever comes to mind. Sometimes stories are similar, but never are they the same. It opens my mind to other possibilities, other stories.
Let it open yours.
