Woodstock Writers Guild

The Drinking Guild with a Writing Problem

Welcome, Fellow Writers! The Woodstock Writers Guild is a group of current and aspiring authors who meet on an approximately monthly basis to drink, to ostensibly critique one another's work, and to boldly split infinitives and to end sentences with prepositions* while their wives wonder where they've got off to.

Membership is limited to the eight souls currently comprising† the guild, plus occasionally their wives, in-laws, houseguests, armchair critics, and other various and sundry members of the literary peanut gallery.

The only dues that members pay are in the form of sleep deprivation, caffeine addiction, writer's block, and stacks of rejection slips. That, and we must tolerate the literary efforts of our fellows, an activity which provides much of the inspiration for the alcohol consumption‡ at Guild meetings.

So take heart, dear writers! We've freely chosen this thankless undertaking and hence have no one but ourselves to blame for our misery. But since misery loves company (cliché alert!), at least we've got each other to keep ourselves miserable company. Right? Write!

*An affront, as Winston Churchill said, "up with which I will not put!"

†A usage for which J.D. will undoubtedly take me to task.

‡I am particularly guilty both of drinking excessively and causing others to do same. Also, I am running out of funny characters with which to indicate my footnotes and may soon be forced to resort to superscript numerals. (Shudder!)