Starting a writer's guild to help socialize, exchange writings and ideas, get advice on writing and publishing, to promote fellow guild members, and to work towards a literary magazine, online and in print.
This is on February 12th (a Tuesday), and I'm very excited about it. The response has been fairly enthusiastic and I can't wait to be a part of helping it get started.
I believe we are going to have a wide variety of writers there. People who've self-published before, those who've written for newspapers, bloggers like myself,those who write lyrics, those looking for more opportunities to write, and maybe even professionally published authors!
We can learn from what each other has done to improve our writing and it's marketability.
We can share what we are writing.
We can work towards a literary magazine, our equivalent of the art displays that The Art Guild does.
I told Benjamin that we were forming a writer's guild, and his reaction was wild enthusiasm. Of course, his idea of what a guild might be was different than my own. He wondered what kind of sword and shield we might pick out.
I should tell him that our sword was the pen (mightier indeed), and that the shield was the power of our written words. Yeah, he would probably think that might be kind of lame.
An intriguing image, nevertheless. Into battle our guild charges, pen at the ready, a sheet of paper held up!
All glory to the Writer's Guild!
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