Meet in the Courageous Room at Lake Miona Recreation Center.  It is so fitting that the Wannabe Writers meet in the Courageous Room.  I find it takes courage to write.  I don’t know if all people who write need encouragement, but I know I don’t feel good about my writing, but I get a lot of encouragement, so that keeps me going.  I love to write for my own pleasure, and have been doing it  even when I was too young to be trusted with a crayon or pencil.  I know this because my Mother would tell the story that I apparently was old enough to go into the bathroom alone, but not for long.  This one day I went in and locked the door.  My Mother kept knocking on the door, are you coming out, not yet…after she made several attempts and I still did not come out, she inquired what are you doing?  I’m busy, I replied. Busy?  Busy doing WHAT?  I replied, I’m writing (I was entirely too young to even know my letters, but I was writing anyway.) My Mother said she paniced thinking I had gotten a crayon and was now scribbling on the entire bathroom wall.  I still was not coming out, and as she pursued her line of questioning, and conjoling,  I told her  I didn’t have a pencil, or a crayon.  Well then how are you writing?  I’m writing things down in my head.    On second thought, maybe I wasn’t a young writer at all, but perhaps a young thinker.  The Villages has many Writer’s Groups that meet.  I have not had the courage to attend one yet, but perhaps may just go to the Courageous Room, it sounds like a safe place to start.   There also are many, many authors with published books that live here. As a matter of fact,  my favorite show is coming up on February 4th at the Lake Miona Recreation Center…Authors and Book Lovers Showcase…from 9-2.  Each Village author has a table with their book or books they have written; you get to see the book, but more importantly, you get to meet the creator.  The first Showcase I attended, I was absolutely amazed, as always, at the variety of talent our Village neighbors  have.  History books, Civil War, World War II, children’s books, cook books, mysteries, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, sports, I could go on and on.  When I really think about it, when compared to all the talented writers, it is probably fairer to say I was a young thinker.