Creative Writing
Creative Writing is the loneliest of past times...
...locked away in a room with only the radio and a cat for company.
Even when the work is finished, we struggle to get it reviewed properly, and criticism from our nearest and dearest can be hurtful if probably well meant.
...hence our creative writing group
Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway might have written commercial and artistic masterpieces from birth: Charlotte Bronte might be able to write deathless prose locked away in a moorland vicarage, but most of us need the input of others.
Whether you're a poet, a novelist or a journalist, you can be part of the Creative Writer's Group.
...and we need informed criticism!
If we are to get our dialogs right, correct our points of view, show and not tell, we need to be read by people who know and care about these things.
So we want to start up....
Our Critics Corner- Where our members can submit their material for informed and constructive criticism and...
- Our Writer's Showcase
- Where new writers can post sample chapters for others - hopefully including agents and publishers can read your finished material.
We intend to set up a mutual critique section, then writer’s showcase to get your material out to a wider market.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
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I watched a programme on the box last night which explained that TV companies find it cheaper and easier to elevate 'no talents' to stardom than to pay real talents to produce real entertainment. The evedence of my eyes says you don't have to be good looking, and that of my ears says intellegence isn't a pre-requisit.
Well I've got no talents so why did they leave me out? I'm only moderately ugly and my family frequently comment on my dimness. I qualify!
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The success or otherwise of Retired but Active
... in its mission to improve our retirement experience depends on our ability to attract Group Leaders with the time and inclination to explain their own area of interest to others.
Plans for Creative Writing
We're just getting going, looking for members and planning for the future, but of course we do have some ideas of where the group might go.
Our main mission is to link together all the creative writers, working in the english language, world-wide. For the moment we include poets, novelists, journalists, the lot, though we would forsee having sub-groups for them all once there are enough of us.
