Writing group up and running

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Hello:

Sue is ready to start the writing group! We would like to extend this

invitation to parents of children that have tethered cord, or any medical

conditions relating to this to join in also. We all need an outlet and from

what Sue has written me about this group, this is your chance! We are going

to keep an age limit of 18 on the writing list. There may be language,

thoughts and writings that would inappropriate for anyone younger.

Sue will be running this in a way that no one will feel singled out. Only

positive feedback is allowed and...well, I would really like her to explain

her technique for this (Sue?) I encourage all who want to, to join us.

To join the group you go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TCSWG and click

on subscribe. You will immediately notice that your subscription has to

approved.

Upon either Sue or I receiving notification that you want to join *and if

your address is also listed with our group*, you will be approved asap. We

have set it up this way in an effort to avoid having " outsiders " join the

group. We wanted to keep it a safe place to write and this is one way we

can. The other way we have done this is to not list it within Yahoo groups.

If someone was looking for support with writing, they wouldn't find it

looking for it in Yahoo groups going through the normal paths. They would

have to literally do a search for tscwriting group. Now how many people who

don't know we exist would do this? As you can see, as far as restrictions

and attempts to keep our privacy, we have done all we can do.

Also, please note that when you join this group, you agree that all written

material is copywritten by the individual authors and nothing, and I mean

nothing will be allowed to be taken from this list and posted anywhere else

or used as your own material elsewhere. This will be result in immediate

expulsion from not only that list, but this list also and immediate

notification to your internet provider. We are again, doing this in an

effort to make everyone feel safe so they can share their feelings and write

whatever they please.

Well, there...after explaining all that, I hope I've relieved some fears

about joining an online writing group. There's also another way to do this

for those that are still apprehensive about using the Internet for this

venue. My suggestion is this: sign up for a free email account

somewhere...Hotmail, Yahoo, your name at your domain, etc. Then sign up for

the writing group using that email address, but write to either Sue or I

privately letting us know who you are so we will approve that address (we

will hold to confidentiality rules.) You can then write to that list using

the anonymous address and you don't even have to sign your name to your

posts and you will have an outlet.

We have gone to these extremes hoping more people will sign up for this. We

need some members to join and participate in order for this to work and I'm

sure many of you are like me...would love to do something like this in the

real world, but have neither the time, energy or stamina to do it on a

consistent basis.

Sue has put a lot of hard work and thought into designing this list and I

hope members respect this and join if they would like. (You don't have to

be approved to unsubscribe...I should mention that...you leave whenever you

want.)

Hope to see you there (I'm already signed up and waiting anxiously for this

to start...Man do I need this outlet.)

Kathy and Sue