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The Collateral Benefits of Cultivating a Passion
This afternoon, I’m heading to the beach for a few days and on the way I’m stopping in at a winery to meet friends. Writing friends. Who are in my writing group, who come to my annual workshop in France, who share my passion for writing.
Every week I meet with a writing group (one week is for a group I co-lead, the other one in which I’m a participant). I discuss writing, drink wine and eat popcorn with writers who share my passion for the craft.
In a couple of weeks I’m driving to a small hotel pretty much in the middle of nowhere with, you guessed it, a group of writers. We will be there to write, discuss writing, eat the delicious meals the hotel staff prepares, and drink wine. (Are you sensing a theme here?)
Many of my closest friends are writers. I spend most of my time with fellow writers, aspiring, published and otherwise. I’ve met judges, CPAs, knitters, bakers, auditors, social workers, trainers, lab workers, breathworkers, shop girls, editors, agents, dentists, doctors, retirees — you name it. All through writing. Not only that, I’ve connected writers nationally and internationally — I have or have had clients in Buenos Aires…
