Hobbies now I have had many of them in my lifetime, from
war-gaming to attempts at building my own furniture. One while I
was younger was a crazed every possible spare hour all consuming
hobby that being the war-gaming craze, one I might add I still
have cravings for. The second not so good producing a couple of
reasonable coffee tables made from recycled crate timber [a
Californian pine very nice grain] but being unable to end up
with a finished product it quickly faded into non-existence.
Now that brings me to my current two joys apart from my wife and
my littlest one Caetlan that is. Firstly as you may know I write
Poetry, Short Stories and the odd Article or Essay I have a
passion for it maybe, sometimes I just sit down fingers to the
keys and it flows and flows almost effortlessly. I am not
the expert and perhaps I do not produce that best seller that
one craves for but I certainly do have a deep sense of
achievement that is very satisfying. If by pure chance and I
believe it does happen on occasion I actually contact with
someone and make them laugh or cry then I am of course
overjoyed. After all the whole purpose even of a hobby
writer is to have some effect to maybe just have an affective
coming together of the writer, his words and the reader and
their emotional reactions.
Of course this can be a very frustrating hobby on some occasions
thankfully not often in my case one goes completely blank the
good old writers cramp or whatever the current saying is for
such a calamity. Inevitably though it will flow again sometimes
all it takes is a suggestion, a chat with a friend or even the
setting of a topic of interest, it is like the key that opens
the imagination of your soul mostly though you can stimulate
yourself just by taking a close look around you space and
observing all the wonders right before your eyes. Anyway there
are basically so many topics to pick from it would be hard not
to find something to write about. I think if you are ever at a
loss for something to do and have had a thought that maybe you
might like to try your hand then do not hold back have a go, you
never know you might just surprise yourself.
I actually let my talent lay dormant for many years then a good
maybe fourteen years ago I spent two weeks producing about ten
poems then a long spell till maybe the last 3 years I guess
roughly and I have been producing something every month. Some
months only a few items other times I have turned out large
amounts of material now that is not to say it is all good stuff
but certainly some of it is and I truly believe it is like any
other challenge that you tackle the more you try the better you
become at it. Unless of course it is one of those situations
where you are like me completely hopeless at the set task
whatever that might be. There are many places around the
internet where you can go to get help with writing such as
writing groups and even some Ezines have sections that cater for
you to learn the processes. So as the hobby of this months topic
why not give it a try.
Next month I will talk about the other hobby of mine webpage
building which involves all sorts of things like HTML, PHP,
MSQL, CSS and a whole heap of tools to produce exciting pages
for your web presence.
Until we meet again take care and may the sun always shine on
your back...
Stu!... [stumacsu] Stuart Charles Mackenzie Article October 2002
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