THE FINAL REVIEW

FINAL REVIEW

Sadly, this will be the final Review for The Ram’s Head Writers’ Group. At last night’s Meeting, Annette was the only member, besides me, who attended, and there was no communication from anyone else. Since participation has dwindled considerably over the past year, I have decided to no longer host Meetings for The Rams. I think writers today have other ways of connecting with each other, so meetings in person are no longer as eagerly attended as they once were.

Even though there will no longer be any Meetings or Review, I will still forward to everyone on The Ram’s email list any requests for submissions or news of writing events that I receive. Since The Rams have had an online presence for many years, since 2003, I do receive some communications from other sources looking for writers and I am happy to pass them along.

Through the years I have met many different writers and have learned a great deal from each and every one. My thanks to all the Rams, past and present, who have willingly shared their treasured written words and so greatly enriched my own writing experiences. I have witnessed all sorts of writing formats and genres that people have worked on. There’s been poetry, short stories, novellas, articles, memoirs, novels, songs, plays, screenplays, theses, romance, mystery, suspense, western, sci-fi, fantasy, erotica, history, adventure, humour, young adult, mid-grade, true crime and how-to. It’s been a fascinating journey seeing all this magnificent creativity.

For those who are looking for a meeting, Jim Williams said there is a writers’ group at the Langley City branch of the Fraser Valley Regional Library. You would have to look up dates and times. I may even look into it myself.

In the next little while, I am going to focus on creating my own online platform, and hope to start a blog where I will post some of my previously published pieces, some poetry, and some smaller pieces of writing that I wouldn’t be sending out to publishers anyhow. Stay tuned. I will send a link when it’s up and running.

If anyone still wants to get together with another writer, please feel free to contact me. We can always do coffee sometime.

I wish everyone all the best with their own writing, and if you have any news about it, I’m always happy to hear it. Good luck with everything, and thanks again to everyone.

Sincerely,

Lisa A. Hatton
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