{"id":1191,"date":"2008-03-17T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2008-03-17T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T15:34:00","slug":"rachel-fox-on-why-writers-groups-are-not-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/rachel-fox-on-why-writers-groups-are-not-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Fox on why writers groups are not for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writers' groups are not for everyone<\/span>


Writers' groups are not the place for everyone<\/span>
Sitting in those shapes and clasping verse<\/span>
A bit like self-help meetings (minus all the fun)<\/span>
Instead of drugs and phobias it's far, far worse<\/span>
There are lots of serious blokes who dream of softback<\/span>
Who know exactly why their words are best<\/span>
Ok, career is not exactly on track<\/span>
But luckily there's nothing helps you toughen like a test<\/span>
The women present criticise constructively<\/span>
This is good and that is nearly so<\/span>
Young and old have faces trained in empathy<\/span>
But is spending time this way really the best way to go?<\/span>
I tried, I tried, I open the door wide<\/span>
And I go right back to the ungrouped world outside<\/span>


\u2022 Rachel Fox was born and raised in Northern flomaxbuyonline.com\/<\/a> England and now lives on the Angus coast in Scotland. She says: “I have been writing poetry regularly for about ten
\nyears. I have worked in journalism, education, market research, shops
\nand nightclubs (5 long years as a DJ in the 1990s). At present I look
\nafter family full-time \u2013 partly because I like it, partly because it
\ngives me more writing time and partly because I am very bad at keeping
\nregular jobs.
\nI publish my poems as postcards and read regularly at the folk
\nclub in Montrose.” More information can be found on her excellent website at www.crowd-pleasers.net<\/a> and we will be carrying some more of her work in the next few weeks.<\/span>
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