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Today I had the honour of attending a writing course with best selling author Sheree Fitch. A woman of many words, many talents and many similar beliefs as mine, Fitch inspired a room full of people and seemed inspired by the same. Brought here by the Frye Festival, Fitch took Moncton by storm by attending Revielle on Wednesday night to recite a poem she wrote in third grade, gave speeches galore at high schools and more, co-hosted CBC Information Morning this morning and then rushed to teach us her tricks of the trade.
Sheree Fitch’s brilliance and exuberant personality was enough to inspire me to keep at it and her compliments on my writing exercises were convincing to me and I will continue to write in all genres.
I welcome you to visit her website at http://www.shereefitch.com.
Once again I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the Law of Attraction and how it’s been working directly for me. Being a writer when I hear of a poetry contest I pounce at the opportunity to tackle the challenge at hand no matter the prize so when I heard our local CBC Information Morning was holding a curling poetry contest I was game!
I sat down one night and just wrote a couple of poems that contained the words required (rock, broom and 106.1) and entered them when the contest opened. Then I began telling everyone that I was taking my husband to a curling draw (Men’s World are in Moncton) because I was winning some tickets, all I had to do was wait until it was announced before I knew which game.
This is one poem that I submitted:
’twas only in Canada that irons appeared
Without a better story or history documented
from hubcaps of gun carriages curling fermented.
Curling clubs were formed, hand picked by a few
The Montreal Curling Club was our first, that is true.
With settling and job hunts Winnipeg became the hub
The epic center of North America, the place to join the club.
Hospitals rejoiced as the losers of the games donated
until 1879 where an oyster dinner was celebrated.
106.1 years later an historic event occurred
TV coverage, the Scott champion and analysis concurred
The rocks and brooms were here to stay
and people of all ages were eager to play.
Now in the spare time that some people have
a group of eight can be halved.
A skip, a mate, a second and lead
calculate distance and skill and speed.
The end of each ice sees a hack and a ring
while each player his best he does bring.
It started with iron and developed to granite
the history of curling is greatly infinite.
By: Sarah Butland
And guess what?! I have the afternoon off as we are off to see a Men’s curling draw!
Facebook gives you the opportunity to meet a lot of new people with similar interests and that is how I met Kelly Moran. I tell you this because she has a great website (http://authorkellymoran.blogspot.com/) where she interviews various great authors (like herself and myself) and the opportunity for those who comment on her interviews free books.
Recently I was the winner of a new-to-me authors book called Seeing Red which is by Susan Crandall. The interview reminded me of myself in many ways and so I shared my thoughts like Kelly asks her readers to. Soon I was notified that I won and shortly after received the fictional novel.
To my complete delight this was a marvelous read from right off the top and continues to be until the end. Crandall had me pointing my finger at all the wrong people and loving the character that almost all others hated. With a man convicted of a crime and then set free only to attempt to prove his innocence, the plot twists and romance will keep any readers heart a flutter.
I surely will be passing this on to the other readers in my life and am sure there opinions will be much the same.
Thank you Kelly Moran and Susan Crandall! Keep up the writing.
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