Do You Need A Writing Group?

Is there an e-book that is dying to climb out of your brain?

Have you been wanting to start -- or keep up with -- that blog idea you have?

Are the characters in your novel waking you up at 3:00 a.m. each morning, uttering sentences they are bugging you to write down on their behalves?

Do you keep saying to yourself, "I gotta write. I gotta make the time and do it?"

Well. Then my advice is, "Try a writing group."

Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, I'm lucky enough to belong to a fabulous group that meets once a week. For two hours. With a rotating group of attendees. And our goal is to park your butt in the chair AND WRITE.

Administrated by the fabulous networking/do-gooding/supportive/all-round-awesome group A Band of Wives, the group is facilitated by smart, flexible, interesting and steadfast author and editor Carol Pott. (Find her business editorialgirl here. And check out her books here.)

I am grateful for the time I spend at this group. Finishing up my own e-book (about beginning to market your own art, which I plan to have up as a Kindle selection later this fall). Writing blog posts. Writing pieces for Eric Maisel's World Salon. Writing. Writing. Writing whatever needs and wants to be written at that time, without the distractions of life when we're sitting somewhere else . . . often, trying to avoid writing :)

And I'm grateful for the pastries.

And chocolates.

And coffee.

Support of smart friends. (Like @alembic . . . .) Uninterrupted time. Pastries, chocolate. Coffee. Recipe for writing success.

Have heard so often lately from folks that they want and need to write. Sometimes the public commitment to sitting one's butt on the chair and doing it will launch you right forth into the project. Go for it!!!!