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Welcome to accidental poet (so named because poetry is a huge accident for me. I never meant to do it, and I doubt there are many people who as children grow up saying ‘when I am grown up I’m going to be a poet..’) For as long as I can remember I’ve been writing poetry, and all of it was an accident, just things I scrawled and hid away (with good reason, they were in fact rubbish, since I wasn’t reading contemporary poetry at the time.) In the past few years the incidents of my accidental poems have been more frequent, so much so poetry has become a dirty secret I couldn’t hide any longer from the people I knew. I wished there was a poets anonymous group I could have gone to where I could admit the problem (‘hello my name’s Angela, and it’s been a week since my last poem’.) Writing is a weird thing, unless you are well known and at the stage of being nationally published it is something that it is hard to admit to (there are no answers at what stage you can turn around to people and say I am a writer when they ask what you do, or is there?) Poetry is far too important to me to pretend it is a nice little hobby, something I do to pass the time and may give up next term when the decoupage class starts. I’m insulted at the notion., and can’t do it. Won’t do it. So I have had to come out the closet with people I know and admit to writing. To be honest I am still at a stage where the people I know in family and friend contexts don’t take me seriously about my commitment to writing, and I realised I can’t be the only person who has this problem.

Writing can be something you start to doubt, am I a writer if there is no one around to read it? Daily life and all the practical stuff can get in the way, especially if no one is encouraging you to write, and you begin to doubt yourself, and it is hard to know what to do with your work. On this site I hope to share what little advice I can give to writers starting out, and hope to hear from some of you about your own advice for writers. I used to look around at published writers etc and wonder how did that happen? I have shared my own experiences, to take some of the mystery out of things, which I hope some of you will find encouraging.

I hope to hear from some you soon, with your own tips about writing.

Reluctantly Yours,