Roundtable

Each month our writing group gathers for a roundtable to discuss ideas, vent about life, foster new habits, and keep each other accountable to the craft.  Ideally, roundtable should last about 2 hours, giving each writer enough time to let us know what they are working on. It never lasts 2 hours and I'm pretty honored to share the table with such amazing people.

This weekend's roundtable lasted a bit over 7 hours.  It seems to be the place where we are most free, most open and most vulnerable  to each other.  We discussed politics without unraveling anyone's feathers and many, many other things that won't get to live on this blog because of the privacy pact we have.

I will share that each of us is working through an incredible energy and an important platform.  I can't wait to read each of the our stories out loud.  Though some stories may be fiction, they are rooted in a grand reality.   The non-fiction stories will grip you in place.  I'm very proud of us.

Currently, I am working on:

1. Edited and submitted to several publications a short fiction story about an alcoholic man who loses his wife to cancer and reflects on what he lost (can't give it away).  It is meant to be a spiritual piece without being overtly religious.

2. Edited and submitted to a couple of publications a short fiction story about a young immigrant trying to get home to his sister in America.  It all happens in the span of 2 minutes.

3. Working on a short non fiction story about a German woman I met, who explained to me her prayer for her daughter to come home and in her childhood being lost in a concentration camp.  I'm not sure where it's going yet, but it takes place at Sunday service (because it really did).

4. Working on a short fiction story about a woman who is going to a nursing home and begins to uproot her garden and with each plant she uproots, it reminds her of someone close to her.  She never makes it to the nursing home.  Not sure where it's going because she's stubborn.

What are you working on?  Share your roundtable with me.

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