Hi ho, MMMLogerinos!

The sun has disappeared and the rain returned. Ugh!

Like any writer today with a website, I get email from people wanting to tell their stories, but not write them. They want another writer to do it because they believe they can't write due to lack of talent or not knowing the mechanics of writing or they don't want to spend the time at it. And writing does take a bit of time.

I received another email from one wanting to tell the story through a real writer. I thought the story put forth in the email had real potential and was very interesting, but I don't have the time or the desire to write someone else's story. I see the creative expression of writing as a sort of therapy. As I'm writing on a particular story, I have all sorts of ah ha experiences because I may be working on my own stuff that I create for the hero and heroine to work through. So when someone approaches me to write their story for them, I always suggest that they might not want to miss the opportunity to learn more about themselves by writing the story themselves. At least just jot down the bones of the story that come to you as memories, impressions and feelings. Don't worry about format or mechanics, just write for as long as it flows for you. And the more you do it, the more the story will flow. Pretty soon you'll have a story down on paper, perhaps not in a perfect format or correctly punctuated, but you'll have written a story. And learned a lot.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Ciao, ciao, MMMMMMMMMMMMelinda