"Writing is great. A blank page is inspiring. Making something is just such good fun!"
"I've discovered I can write, but I don't know what to do with it yet. HELP!"
"Hi, I am Aimée and am a survivor and writting helps me with that and also like writting childrens stories - which adults may find ok."
"I feel I have to resurrect my creativity (buried in amongst 20 odd years of medical facts) and enter a fictitious world.....oh, the pub is real? Right see you all there...."
"Haven't been in a writers group since I was 17; somewhere along the way I lost the nerve that took me there. Well, I guess it's time to bend the confidence that intervening life has given to me back to Plan A. Ready or not, here I come... "
"You're not a writer if you don't write, right? Well I've been writing for a long time, but just now I'm coming out of a nine moth hiatus in which all I thought about was finals."
"See that photo? See that pain? That's me opening another rejection slip. You'd think I'd be used to it by now :-)"
"Hi. I'm John. I belong to another group but very little reading and discussion. Mostly competitions and established writers blethering, which is great, but doesn't give you a real insight or lead anywhere."
"I'm a keen reader of fiction - in particularly crime. I have started a book but I'm stuck and need help !!. I would like to get it going again. "
"After a spell as a chef,Glasgow publican and failed restauranteur - I spent most of my life as a journalist. Have written and published one fractual book but now have strange compulsion to write fiction. - Douglas "
"I was a member of this group before I let Edinburgh two years ago, and really enjoyed it. Now I'm back and want to start up again!"