Hi all, This is my first attempt please go easy on me.

My first letter. (http://sheffieldwriters.ath.cx/SFStoryArchive/1176595743.rtf)

Welcome to the Group, AKITA. :thumbsup:

You've answered your own question and taken the first step by writing that letter to all of us, and saved on postage too! :)

I think you have been the first one to write a letter to us all, so it's a novel concept when compared to other letters submitted so far in this month's theme. :thumbsup:

Yes, that was a neat way of dealing with this month's theme! Well done.

I'm not sure I'm the right person to offer tips on writing but the usual one is of course to write about what you know. Which is useful for me as I haven't got the imagination to write about something unless it's based on my own experience somewhere along the line. It looks like you have plenty of hobbies so you'll never be short of material!

Looking forward to the next contribution. :)

You sound a nice friendly person,Akita. Im sure you will write more stories as you get used to this Writers Group.

Dear Akita,

On behalf of The Sheffield Forum Writers Group may I welcome you to our little domain, recently described so eloquently by ‘Internet weekly’ magazine as “probably the biggest pothole on the information super highway.”

Don’t worry too much about your “Gramaticals & Spelllings” - we’re more interested in story structure and ideas. You’ll find that the more you write, the better you will get at it until you are expressing yourself in a concise manner, sifting the wheat from the chaff without beating about the bush, avoiding clichés like the plague or errors like rambling off in a totally pointless direction and have you seen the price of price of fish & chips lately?

Three ideas to get you started.

(1) Get a decent word processing package like “WORD” that automatically flags up spelling errors and grammatical fragments that may need revision.

(2) Buy a thesaurus to enable you to select the appurtenant befitting relevant appropriate words for your story, before long you won’t need to rely on it as much as your vocabulary expands and your writing technique develops.

(3) Read lots of books by good writers. You can pick up their good techniques almost unconsciously and by actively comparing your work to theirs you can chart your progress, its great when you put down a book and think “I can write better than that!”

I’m sure you will find the advice and feedback from the more experienced writers invaluable as your writing style flourishes, welcome aboard.

Mantaspook

Co-leader Writing Group and part time satirist

(3) Read lots of books by good writers.

The problem is i hate reading books

The problem is i hate reading books

Then eavesdrop on peoples conversations , you can usually drag a good story from idle gossip .One more thing WELCOME to the house of fun :loopy: