Romance Writers and Readers of Distinct Fiction is a wonderful group!  It is relatively new but is growing quickly in membership - with both writers and readers.  Since joining it recently, I am getting to "know" some of these wonderful people, learning and sharing in their writings, their thoughts and especially in their support for one another.  Their inspiration for me is a wonderful blessing as I return to my one love ... writing.  I feel more compelled to do what I love to do, yet at this stage I find myself struggling with a "starting point".  But as I read some of their own blogs, especially the wonderful lady Chiron who writes with such conviction in the art of writing.  Her notes fill me with refreshed understanding of what it is all about and I am a whole lot closer to getting started again.

     Another wonderful member, Bobby R. Woodall, has also had a great influence on me.  He easily inspires others, caring very much about you as a person and fellow member.  He expresses himself with a lot of humour and even more a vivid imagination that can stretch out in all directions sometimes.  He is just Bobby, a wonderful fellow who has beaten the odds time and again with a very interesting yet tragic life.  Bobby has written two books himself, "Clearwater" and "Mercer's Manor", both westerns.  I had ordered them both and just received them.  I know they will both be excellent reading for they too have had good reviews. 

     As I check in daily with WRDF, I continue to grasp new and exciting works among all the members, finding new friends along the way.  That I get so much from them, I can only hope I will be able to give back as much in return.  For now though, I will strive to just do my best and be me.  With their encouragement, I have set my own goals.  Short term - daily goal of achieving a certain point, long term - to write an inspirational piece that may help others.  In between?  or perhaps finding my true direction - to compile an assortment of short stories for both children and young adult reading.  I trust in myself and spiritual guidance to get started again .... and of course Writers and Readers for all the quiet encouragement they have instilled in me.  My thanks will always go to them first, and to Bobby for guiding me to this blessed site.