All our founding members have experienced the trials and tribulations associated with becoming a full-time, or even part-time, professional (read “paid”) author. I think we all have a really good story or two in us. Life experiences alone expose us to a wonderful conglomerate of story ideas. The problem is, and probably has been for most of us, to get them out and on paper.

With this site our goal is to facilitate, or at least ease, your movement to writing your thoughts, and dreams, for other people to read. Even with the vast internet growth someone still has to write what is posted. There may be programs for grammar, spell check, and even ones to prevent duplicate posts to keep our Google friends happy; but someone, somewhere, still must take an idea from the depths of their mind and tell the computer how to express it. You may do this through a keyboard, or a microphone headset — but it still must be done. There is no computer program (yet!) that can express the feelings a human being has as they describe the morning mist, or the waves of the ocean, or the happiness on new parents. Only a human can transfer their emotions and thoughts to another human through the written or spoken word.

Even the greatest speakers of all time put their thoughts on paper first before communicating them to others. In my humble opinion one of America’s greatest speakers, and therefore writers was our 16th president – Abraham Lincoln. He had no computer, no spell check, no grammar corrector, not even a typewriter but his words move people even today more than 140 years later. Besides his many moving and insightful speeches one can gain insight into his beautiful prose which often crosses to poetry from his letters. One particular comes to mind. He took it upon himself to personally write to Mrs. Bixby, from Massachusetts, who (he was informed, incorrectly) had lost 5 sons in the Civil War. A excerpt from the letter . . .

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the alter of Freedom.

That from a man without any formal education.

We hope you will feel free to write something for us. Hopefully our readers will be able to comment and help you with your thoughts and ways of expressing them. You know you must be doing something right, when someone tells you that they can/can’t see your character doing this, or that. You can then have a debate about a completely fictitious character, created by your mind, whose every action is dictated by your wants and wishes, and how that character’s mind works because you created him/her.

Try that working your 9-5 job. Good luck and have fun!!!!

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