Another Writing Project

View of Wellesley campus from Lake Waban (photo by Beatrice Denham ’14)

You can blame all of this on Meagan. She is the one who got me started.

Back when I first left my job, she sent me a job posting that she thought might interest me. I forget exactly what the job was, but I did have some back and forth with the person who had posted about the job. During our back and forth, she asked me if I had a couple of creative writing samples I could send her.

Since I didn’t think that most of the technical reports I had written over the course of my thirty year career could be considered creative by any stretch of the imagination, I sat down and came up with a couple new samples.

The job never materialized, but now I had these writing samples that I had a surprising amount of fun writing and that I wanted to do something with. So I started a blog.

The other thing to note about the job post that Meagan shared with me is that it came from a Facebook group of Wellesley alumnae that I had been unaware of previously.

Oh my, what an interesting group with all kinds of interesting subgroups. They are the primary reason I love Facebook. Actually, they might be the only reason I love Facebook.

Anita, one of the members of this group and one of my new Internet friends, formed a writing group that I joined where we respond to weekly writing prompts and critique each other’s responses. And I’ve been enjoying reading a lot of those responses. So much so that I thought some of them should be published.

So, Anita and I are now the proud editors of a new on-line publication, Lake Waban Blue. It might be a couple weeks or so before we actually publish a story, but I hope some of you follow along through Medium, Facebook, or Twitter.

And you know who to blame.

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