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A thank you from Jamie Grover

Published 1 year ago

I'd like take this opportunity to thank this wonderful site for providing the opportunity for me to air my work.  I listened to an interview with Sir Bob Geldof last week and he was discussing the question whether a song has ever been written if nobody has ever heard it.  This rang true with me.  I, like many of you fellow shortbreaders, have pieces of paper, bus tickets, fag packets etc etc scrawled with ideas for or beginnings of stories, but what I have always found difficult is finishing things off and even more so then polishing them, what we may call drafting, what Frank Zappa calls 'putting the eyebrows on it'.  When I first came across this site I found something that would force me into doing so and then once my work was uploaded and read it finally came into being.  I am sure that many of you are like me, tangled up in your lives that finding time to get these ideas down and finished is a lot harder than hanging washing out, changing nappies, paying mortgages etc etc etc, all the things that actually need doing.  But I need to write.  I have a burning desire to create.  I don't know where it comes from and I sure as hell don't know what controls it; nothing gives me more pleasure than working through an idea with no knowledge of where it is leading or how it will turn out.  I just start by considering.  What would make someone do this?  Why would someone act like that?  How can society let this happen?   And what comes out is driven by something out of my control.  I hope that it is God but why would he want me to write stories about abused children or sexually frustrated rapists?  Perhaps that these stories do have some merit and are not voyeuristic?  I do not know.  But I do always try to create thought and evaluate modern life and the human condition.

Anyway, where was I?

Oh yes, thanking this wonderful site.

Because now, thanks to shortbread and its editors and writers and readers my work now is.

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