Natural Sapphires. My first blog posting.

As a writer easy to say ‘I want to blog’ but maybe not so easy to say interesting things each time I hit the keyboard. So perhaps the best way to start is to expose a little gem I discovered two years ago.

This is the Sapphire Writers Group. We meet each Monday morning in the Dublin Writer’s Centre. We read and review each other’s work.  Some are more prolific than others but the group is energetic and very vocal, ideas and opinions are freely shared and generously accepted if not always agreed with!  We also laugh, a lot and that’s great because locked away at one’s own desk, trying to complete that day’s quota of words,  finish a scene, or bring a character to a place so that you can start again tomorrow with enthusiasm, it’s easy to misplace the joy in this kind of creativity.

We are an eclectic bunch and in that lies not only inspiration and motivation but also the vigour needed to find the best places to send one’s work.  I am in danger here of becoming altogether too earnest but then getting published is a serious matter.

Anyway for me it’s just great to have such a terrific bunch of people who will spend time reading my work, share my hangups,  assuage my doubts and send me home firm in the belief that .. ‘yes, this is worth working on’

RB.