Forgefire Press

The reply was positive and landed in my mailbox today. I asked someone I know from the Abney Park forum whether or not they were interested in having new writers to their writing group, at www.forgefirepress.com. After sending a few samples of my writing (as it happens from Ophelia's Photograph) I've been cleared to go on and sometime during the next couple of days I'll be all set up and ready to go.

I was stunned what to write about at first. I have found that the easiest thing to do is to take one simple idea and play with it, and then whenever you stray from that you remind yourself of that one simple idea that it's supposed to all come down to in the end. As with Ophelia, the idea is "a man obsessed with a photograph". It has kept the novel surprisingly well on track. Either how, I was inspired by a friend for the idea I'll be writing at Forgefire: "a man in the mausoleum of his dead love". May sound very gothic, but I might make it a bit more yknow, not so literal. Anyway it seems to be an idea I could write endlessly about, which is good.

What is Forgefire, you wonder?

It's a group of writers posting weekly, either it's new chapters of a novel or if it's short stories. I will be writing something novel-ish, I think. We'll see how much potential the mausoleum might have!

POET in the JAR