Another brief post and more questions for you today. At least I haven’t resorted to repeating posts from last year.
Okay then, topic of the day is She Writes. I joined this group within the first week of its inception … and then I pretty much forgot about it. This morning, I read that it will celebrate its one-year anniversary later this month, and I started wondering how many of you might also be members. If you are, I have some questions for you:
- Are you an active member?
- If you are, what exactly does active mean?
- What benefits have you received from She Writes?
- In other words, what am I missing out on?
Now, for a brief update on my Creativity Workshop progress. My goal this week was to write the fourth, and last, poem for my first set of goals. This week’s poem was to depict Autumn as a middle-aged woman—the second half of motherhood. So, on Monday I compiled a list of appropriate words and phrases. Then, a life situation derailed me for the next three days, and I resigned myself to marking this week as a fail. But on Friday morning,
as I sat in the cool of my backyard with a cup of ginger tea in hand, words started aligning themselves. Autumn spoke to me for a while, and then I came in and wrote the poem. It’s in prose form. I’m not completely satisfied with it, but I’m grateful I got something written this week.
From this first set, I learned that I can write a poem on demand, possibly of the same quality as my other poems … of course, that’s not saying much! 😀 I also discovered that there is far more to learn about writing poetry than I imagined. I have a new level of admiration for those who are able to write a poem that moves me.
The next set of goals, is to write four short stories. Originally, these four were to be horror or psychological suspense, but I don’t want to be thinking dark thoughts right now. My last set was to be four stories centered on the theme of place, so I’m switching the order.
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Linda Cassidy Lewis 
She Writes: overwhelmed. Haven’t even had much time to blog let alone get into all those conversations. I keep thinking once I have something to promote it could come in handy. At least we know it’s there if we need it. Like another commenter, when I get back into it, I prefer Twitter.
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I keep telling myself I’ll go back and use She Writes sometime, Mary. If I can figure out how. 🙂
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Hi, haven’t stopped by in a while. My twins graduated from HS and it’s been crazy. I am what I consider to be a fairly active members of SheWrites. What works for me is the groups. I am most active in Mother Writer! and Bloggers, Let’s Make it Work. I have met some interesting writers there and developed some good contacts and followers of my blog. I’m not crazy about the way ning works; I wish it was more like Facebook, where comments to discussions were included in emails, not just a link to the threads. There are some pretty powerful writers associated with SheWrites.
I also find interesting writing contests and blogs through the groups. The blogging group has a weekly curator who reviews 3 to 5 blogs a week, doing a lot of work for me.
I signed up fairly early on with SheWrites, so perhaps that’s why I’ve been able to manage my level of participation there. It’s been interesting to watch a social networking site grow from scratch. I was completely overwhelmed by BlogHer and still haven’t figured out how to navigate that site.
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Susan, thanks for explaining how SheWrites works for you. I think I’m a member of the Bloggers group. I really haven’t given SW a chance, so I guess I should do that. It seems there’s never enough time for everything.
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