Does Santa have to be good?

A space for writers

Every Thursday evening I am attending a meeting for writers. It is a good meeting where I get constructive feedback on my writing. I joined just a couple of weeks ago. We are different people from different backgrounds, cultures, ages, sexes and workplaces. However, we have all one thing in common: the interest in writing. We write something every week; it might be a poem, a chapter from a book, a short story or just anything written by ourselves. Then we bring it with us at Thursday evenings to read for the group. Questions get answers. Does this bring the story forward? Is this piece clear enough? Does the dialogue contain essential stuff? Are the characters believable? The main thing we work with is storytelling, but sometimes we also help each other out with grammar and spelling. I think it is a great space for writers!

The Masterpiece of my life - and a Cappuccino

I have been writing since I learned how to spell. So far, I have written a diary, novels and poems. Right now, I am working on my masterpiece. It is a story about my life, and it contains about 48 000 words. The story is already there, but I have to fix the grammar, spelling and answer yes at all the questions mentioned above. Deadline is the 31 December 2007. I wrote the entire story in Swedish, so I cannot use the writing group for support, which is a big disability. I have actually to get myself a publisher's reader and pay big money for something the group might had been able to help me with, if it would be written in English. I am still writing small stuff to work on within the group. I have written a Christmas story about a Swedish Christmas, and it we published it a week ago! We made an anthology named Cappuccino, and this is the first time ever I got myself published. It feels great, and I already made some money selling the anthology!

Does Santa have to be good?

The last two things I have to do this year are to finish my masterpiece and then write another Christmas story in English. The last group meeting for this year will be Thursday next week, and we decided that everybody would write about Christmas. So now, the question is... what do I write? I already wrote a nice story about Christmas, so now it has to be something else. One of several interesting questions is; does Santa always have to be good? Have you ever thought that maybe, just maybe, Santa is a drunken old man who just wants a one-night stand? It could be an interesting view...