My blog is award free. I great appreciate your considering me for awards but your presence is always reward enough.
I have been writing for a lot of years. I enjoy the process and I enjoy trying different genres. I have been teaching for a lot of years and being a teacher of drama I am very interested if not passionate about performance.
Therefore a lot of the pieces that I will place in this blog will be performance pieces I have written with my students.
Added to that I will put here the variety of work I have written over the years. Last year when my father was dying I found writing each evening when I went home was a way for me to deal with the distress of watching my father’s life ebb away.
Sometimes I find my subjects work best for me as prose and other times no matter how hard I try I cannot get a word of prose out of them but rather they speak to me as poetry.
My work is what I like to write, often depending on my mood and inspiration.
I have been fortunate over the past two years to have a wonderful friend who has been my audience. She has amazingly tolerated my literary efforts and been supportive of work, I have at times may struggled to complete.
Since beginning this blog I have made some wonderful friends amongst the many bloggers who regularly read my work. I would like to think that I use the blog to experiment with writing forms and subjects. Always my work is a labour of love, and even in saying that I am aware that sometimes one piece will work better than others. But that’s life.
I have learned over the years that language is a common bond between all peoples. However the context in which we read each others work varies and what one person will see as good and exciting another may well see nothing at all. That is always the challenge with writing. But when you stop enjoying the process it is sadly time to put your keyboard away. Hopefully for me that wont happen until I can’t see it any longer.
If anything you read in here hits a chord with you then great. If not, thanks for looking and I urge you to continue your journey.
If you have read this far be it known that awards are flattery but are unnecessary as your comments and the time taken to read my work is what I am always grateful for.
If you have reason to contact me you can do so at: mtgrogan@gmail.com
Morpethroad 
I don’t accept awards either. On my old blog, (now shut down) I accepted them at first. But they took so much time away from my writing, I stopped participating. It’s wonderful to be acknowledged, but like you, likes and comments are all the awards I need.
Yes indeed I was so flattered the first time I received one until I read the fine print and thought about the work involved. Then I decided if I could write something that others might read and comment on then that was sufficient and immediate reward.
Please call me Michael.
I agree, Michael.
And my friends call me Cathy. 🙂
Thank you Cathy..
“… If anything you read in here hits a chord with you then great. If not, thanks for looking and I urge you to continue your journey…” Wow, my favourite lines. So pure and very objective. You rock for not accepting awards. I respect you for that.
Thank you for your kind words. I love to write and awards whilst nice are too much hard work. As I say your reading and comments are award enough.
Awesome to know that.
Hi Micheal! I happened upon your blog after visiting Jacqueline’s party. I look forward to reading more of your work.
Thank you I shall go and check out your blog
i like that you say language is a common bond, it really brings people together when they can share a thought and feeling which with out language we would just keep them all to ourselves….
Oh so very true, aren’t we lucky we can communicate in this way…
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thank you for the follow; very kind
I stumbled across your blog yesterday, although I think I knew it was there for some time. I will definitely back to read your interesting articles. What actually got my attention was the title Morpethroad. Although I have been living in Switzerland the past 50 years, I spent my first 20 years growing up in Bethnal Green in the East End of London (yes I am one of the last surviving cockneys). One of our schools was Morpeth Street school in the area. I did not go there, but some of my friends did. Just a coincidence I suppose.
Hello yes coincidence I am sure though I’m sure our Morpeth came from England at some stage of our development. I look forward to reading your blog too. Have a good day.
Greta story Michael, look forward to more 🙂
Thank you stop by anytime
Great* I meant, whoops 🙂
Wonderful to meet you and your writing here.
Thank you.😀
Michael: Lillian here from dVerse. I am finding that my replies to some posts to my Razzle Dazzle prompt are not showing up. Brian let me know that my reply to his wonderful post about jello went into his spam. I am soooo frustrated! I LOVED your post for this prompt and left a long reply to it. I’m going to look and see if this reply posts here on your About….and if it does, hope you will check out your Razzle Dazzle post to see “where” my reply is! Can you let me know? Maybe by posting in the dVerse bar comments? THANKS!’
PS: LOVED your Razzle Dazzle poem — hope you can find my comment on it!
Pleased to virtually meet and read with you. 😇
Thank you, it will be lovely to see you stop by from time to time.
And ditto My blog is full of different genres and styles so please come read…
I have noticed and I shall… 🙂
I did like your teacher post yesterday…..sent me back to my own schooling….after the ordinary schooling I received I often wonder how I became one…and more than anything enjoyed the experience…
Maybe you wanted to motivate them to be better, give them a extra ordinary experience.😇
I’d like to think so there were days when I was in the middle of performance when I used to think “This is so much fun and they are paying me to do”. I always had the view education was about more than the classroom, it was about opportunity and experience and I tried to provide that to my students, some days went better than others like in any job but I loved what I did…it wasn’t until the end of my teaching days that I realised the impact I did have on the kids I taught, I was pretty lucky in lots of ways.
My daughter is Headmistress of two schools so I have heard those words before. At nine she said “I will be a teacher that’s what I am”. Look at where she is now.
Life will take us in all sorts of directions. I think at 9 I wanted to drive a fire engine.
Now if she had said that I would have thought odd but she’s only 9…
Well being a boy I did set my sights on things that looked good and who didn’t want to drive a fire engine??
Hello. I found you through Wendy’s ‘picnic with Ants’ blog. I am new to following you, and just thought I’d say hi 🙂 Take care and i look forward to reading your future posts. Carly
Hello Carly, thank you for following me, please stop by any time.
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Thanks willow 🤓
You sound like a very deep and passionate guy… micheal..,
And I will be checking out your work.. on
Thanks so much nita…
Your blog is very beautiful ❤ ❤ ❤
Thank you I appreciate your lovely comment
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Hi Michael, I just popped over from Dandelion Fuzz, where I was answering some of your comments. 🙂 I look forward to reading more of your writing!
Thanks Kat, stop by anytime, sometimes I even make tea.
I look forward to it!
HI
Thank you so much for finding my blog and liking a post and joining in on the weekend share. Hope to see you again
Trina
Thanks Trina, I hope to be back.
You always have great comments, Michael. About the awards, I’ve considered putting an award free button because I’ve received a few, and when being less confident that my blog would be accepted, it was good inspiration. I think it’s good exposure for new bloggers.
When i started blogging I received a few awards but I found it all very overwhelming, this notion of nominating others so I withdrew. I like the writing I find the award nominations too time consuming.
I guess I have the time, but nominating other bloggers is difficult. I feel I’m always leaving someone out. I do try to bring new people in.
You are the first writer I’ve found who shares my interest in performance writing. It’s nice to meet you. Regarding awards: I use them as an opportunity to thank the people who follow my blog and to introduce bloggers who are new to me. I never expect the people I nominate to act on the award because I do understand how overwhelming they can feel.
The performance writing started back in about 1993 when in our school system Drama became an examinable subject. At the time apart from monologues from plays there was not a great resource for performances, so I set out to create some. There are a few early on my blog but as you can see my writing had taken on a whole new course. As for awards, you sum them up well, overwhelming and often a cause of anxiety. But each to his/her own. Thanks for following my blog, please stop by anytime.
I’d love to subscribe to your blog but can’t find a subscribe option
On the blog page there should be a follow button on bottom right hand side. I hope there is?
No, I can’t see one. I know on my blog I recently changed the theme and the social buttons do not appear on the home page.
Ahh I see you’ve followed me. Please stop by anytime.
Okay, there is a little pop-up ‘follow’ button which appeared in the bottom RH corner of my screen for RSS feed. But I usually follow blogs by email and can’t see this option. Hope this helps?
All good I’ll appear in your blog feed.
Hi Michael I hope you don’t mind but I am hoping you will accept to write part 6 of The Haunted Wordsmith’s story.
Here is the story and rules so far.
https://willowdot21.wordpress.com/2019/01/30/finish-the-story-the-circus-part-5/
Yeah no worries
Excellent thanks 💜💜