106. Three Writers I Know Who Click
Three Writers I Know Who Click
I think the days when if you wanted to know what writers got up to, you opened a newspaper or magazine, have been superseded by the exchange of communication you can get on the world wide web. Now, instead of flipping over pages, you click on a keyboard. It’s common practise, everybody does it... everybody? Not by a long shot. If one looks at profiles on the net, it isn’t hard to fathom out that those of us who have hit the fifties, sixties and seventies are a minority. That’s because our generation did not grow up with clicks and webs and computers in our schools. We used pens, pencils and paper and if you were lucky got yourself a second hand manual Olivetti typewriter. Those were our days, so when I hear that quite a number of older writers have never clicked and never want to click, I can understand why. But here are three writers I have known for some time and I’ve chosen them because they click, they certainly do click and they click for all those others who are afraid, ashamed or too fossil to start clicking.
What is amazing about these writers is that you will find their name and profiles all over the web. You will find them in electronic writers’ groups chatting away like magpies, arguing like mad and getting heated up- sometimes using language, you would never dream came out of sedate, elderly ladies and gentlemen. You will find them in social websites like Facebook, Yuwie, all kinds of blogs, their own websites they have created themselves or websites they have created to host other writers. They have no qualms in having their picture with wrinkles and warts splashed on the net, nor find they are finicky, fussy about their personal matters- everything, dirty laundry as well, goes unashamed facedly on the net.
Martin Brocklebank is one I have known since the turn of the century when web explosion was only tepid. He is and was the chairman of Milton Keynes Writers’ Group- Speakeasy- for which he set up a website and there you can find host of things that may be useful to writers: like competitions, courses, writers seminars and holidays apart from stories, poems, articles. Here is an extract from his web:
http://www.mkweb.co.uk/speakeasy/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=55699
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Martin is also a writer, poet and I guess a believer in God. I have chosen two poems from his booklet.
The first poem “Tuesday Evening” is on the darker side of life while the second “Rainbows at the End” is on the lighter side of life.
I think the days when if you wanted to know what writers got up to, you opened a newspaper or magazine, have been superseded by the exchange of communication you can get on the world wide web. Now, instead of flipping over pages, you click on a keyboard. It’s common practise, everybody does it... everybody? Not by a long shot. If one looks at profiles on the net, it isn’t hard to fathom out that those of us who have hit the fifties, sixties and seventies are a minority. That’s because our generation did not grow up with clicks and webs and computers in our schools. We used pens, pencils and paper and if you were lucky got yourself a second hand manual Olivetti typewriter. Those were our days, so when I hear that quite a number of older writers have never clicked and never want to click, I can understand why. But here are three writers I have known for some time and I’ve chosen them because they click, they certainly do click and they click for all those others who are afraid, ashamed or too fossil to start clicking.
What is amazing about these writers is that you will find their name and profiles all over the web. You will find them in electronic writers’ groups chatting away like magpies, arguing like mad and getting heated up- sometimes using language, you would never dream came out of sedate, elderly ladies and gentlemen. You will find them in social websites like Facebook, Yuwie, all kinds of blogs, their own websites they have created themselves or websites they have created to host other writers. They have no qualms in having their picture with wrinkles and warts splashed on the net, nor find they are finicky, fussy about their personal matters- everything, dirty laundry as well, goes unashamed facedly on the net.
Martin Brocklebank is one I have known since the turn of the century when web explosion was only tepid. He is and was the chairman of Milton Keynes Writers’ Group- Speakeasy- for which he set up a website and there you can find host of things that may be useful to writers: like competitions, courses, writers seminars and holidays apart from stories, poems, articles. Here is an extract from his web:
http://www.mkweb.co.uk/speakeasy/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=55699
Your work on this site?
We want your work for consideration
Speakeasy are looking for new work to publish on this site.Have you a poem or two, or maybe a short story? What about that article or interview? Maybe some hints or tip for other writers?Please email speakeasy@writerbrock.co.uk with your work in the main body of the email. We are not able to take photos. There is no payment - just the kudos of being read by nearly 30,000 readers from all over the world.
Martin is also a writer, poet and I guess a believer in God. I have chosen two poems from his booklet.
The first poem “Tuesday Evening” is on the darker side of life while the second “Rainbows at the End” is on the lighter side of life.
Marit (aka Anna Reiers) is another writer clicking away in her fifties. Marit is a writer for writers- that’s why she has called her website
She has also pieced together an e-magazine "The Pages" (cover above) which anyone can down load free from her website with some juicy pieces from various writers. I am posting her
guidelines here if anyone wants to
guidelines here if anyone wants to contribute with a piece of writing.
Su Laws Baccino is a writer who was once, and I suspect probably still is, a rebel, even though she claims she is a retired rebel. Although Su is active in most on line writers’ groups, and you can also find her integrating with friends, relations, writers, and strangers on Facebook, she has published her poetry in the traditional hardback editions with delightful covers of her own paintings, that’s why I thought it worthwhile to place the covers of both books on the web, just for the sheer enjoyment of her illustrations.
Like in Martin’s case I have chosen two poems: the first “Stirring The Spell” is on the darker side of life while the second “Local Folk” is supposedly to be on the lighter- if you take it with a pinch of salt.
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