When Sharon suggested on Plurk that we might like to sign up for a group writing project on how I got my blogging start

it sounded like a fun thing to do. So here is my contribution.

WritingUp

I got my blogging start purely by accident. One day in June 2006 I was searching for online writing work and I came across a site called Writingup. It looked pretty good to me as I read some of the blogs on there and so I signed up for an account and started blogging.

I met a whole group of people on that site that I like to think of as my writing friends, including Sharon, Dana and Gracepub. I learned a lot from these three and from some of the other writers on that site. It was through this that I signed up for other blogs and got my start in freelance writing.

Sadly, Writingup as it was, no longer exists for a variety of reasons, however, I personally will always have very fond memories of the place that I got my blogging start - I will always be grateful for and to the people that I met on there, for well over a year that site was a great place to be.