Others Writers

I believe you become a writer when you write. You become a published writer when you publish. A failed writer when you fail. And so on. Not five minutes ago I was looking at my friend Vicky's blog: http://vickyr2009.blogspot.co.uk/ and was going over her poetry for her for her submission to a magazine called Agenda that has just said they would publish my poem 'Junk Box'. Good news! Wow! 


But going over her poem made me think of the writers I talk to on a regular basis. You have Vicky who has just discovered her talent for poetry - my favourite of her poems being 'Cardigan' (which I'm sure she wrote for me deep down). Joe - my roommate, who has his own blog (http://joekilbride.blogspot.co.uk/) - writes poems and stories, one of his stories, he told me, chronicles a man's sex life from woman-to-woman. Dom is the poet also - the poet guru as we call him as we all go to him for advice - and he also writes short stories. Sam writes novels, his focus being fantasy novels, epics, "money's in the series" as he said to me one day while we argued about children's literature and the 'business' of it. 


Of course there are other writers I am associated with - I do creative writing in Uni - but they are the four writers I talk to the most and talk about writing and literature with. Joe and I, for example, usually bump into one another at 3am in the morning (usually the kitchen) and we both begin bitching about our lives, then we ponder over love, delve into literature and writing an before I know it it's 5am and I have to get up in 3 hours for work. 


What I love the most is the sense of community I have. I was reading about a writer's retreat the other day and it sounded fascinating. Being around other writers - different writers especially, those that have their own style, their own way of work, their own regime - is a very appealing atmosphere. My friend Elly was saying how she loves the sense of community in Cathays - the land of the students - and I agree but what I enjoy most is that I live with two writers - soon to be three writers! - and talk to many of them about writing.


Writing is our lives and we love it.