WRITING.COM, A DIAMOND MINE

WRTING.COM, A DIAMOND MINE

I found it!  I found the diamond mine for writers!  It's Writing.Com and it's wonderful!

I began writing at age sixty-nine after taking a writing course from LongRidgeWritersGroup and wrote my first short story.  After the course was over, I felt so alone as a new writer.

Then, one day while searching online, I found Writing.Com, a place where I could interact with other writers and post my work.  It was like finding a diamond mine where the diamonds were other writers, both more and less experienced than me.

Immediately after posting my first essays and stories, I began to receive help from other writers. Their truthfulness about my writing began to help me grow into a writer.  From the first reviewer who introduced me to the 'how' of Show Don't Tell, to those reviewers who just praised my work.  Both types of reviewers have given me encouragement to "keep writing" and to write better.  Thanks to them, I wrote short stories and eventually a long story that became a novella then a novel.  With their help, I continue to improve.  For all the help, I am grateful.

Now I'm seventy-four and I've written two novels, nearly two hundred stories and dozens of essays, OP-Ed, poems and even "rants'.  I don't know if I will live long enough to have a novel accepted by a publisher, but I do know that my writings will continue to be read because Writing.Com will even give my site a white suitcase and let others continue to read what I will have written.  That is a blessing I am thankful for.

My daughter now writes on Writing.Com at her young age of forty.  Writing.Com's very existence has led her to start her writing career early.  I wish WDC had been available to me when I was forty; if so, maybe my writing career would have begun thirty-four years ago.  WDC wasn't and I didn't; however, my daughter will. (one reviewer asked that I link her here but I don't know how to link her to this item but she is [e-mail]  I like that she wrote about me, her mother from which I learned something from a daughter who loves and respects me and has a close relationship with me.)

Writing.Com is truly a diamond mine for me.  I'm truly grateful.
                             Sincerely,          Ann Patterson, best4writing.writing.com


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