Triond is Not the End of the Line

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After reading an interesting poem from one of my friends today; I felt a sense of sorrow that they had because of the lack of returns.

I have to admit that they have every reason to feel despondent after the amount of work they have put in. The person I am talking about, I will not mention because it would be unfair to their own creditability but I hope this will be respected.

Many people and friends who may read this will know what I mean as we have all put a lot of work for little return.

I have even put marketing suggestion to Triond panel and to be honest would like a more positive reply. That was to advertise our work to different publishing and media companies with information on where and when our work is published. This would not only bring extra revenue and public recognition to us but also to Triond and the Publishing companies as many of our other friends and relatives who haven’t got computers may well buy the edition our work is printed in.

I feel a lot of good work is overlooked by the media. Not just poetry, photos, stories but also art. I have wondered why our work isn’t more recognisable; one might say mine isn’t good enough, Fair comment, but I would like to know that one of my friends has been published either in the national newspaper, magazine or photographic magazine and so on.

Years ago as a regular reader of the Daily Express Newspaper, I had quite a few Letters published, some letter of the day and a letter of the week. This was while I was taking a home correspondence writing course with the Writer’s Bureau.

Just getting published for the first time inspired me to write more because I now had my name in print. Unfortunately I was knocked down to size by some other publishers with that dreaded letter of refusal landing on my doormat with the rest of the post, I read it and felt my heart sink as it read:                                                                                                               Dear Mr Stavert, Thank you very much for the outline for your travel article, “Gran Canarias, the ideal family holiday destination.”                                                                      Unfortunately we do not have any call for this material. We wish you the best of luck in getting this published elsewhere.

Thank you once again The Editor (Magazine)

Eventually I telephone a newspaper magazine up and asked why I hadn’t been considered, I wanted some truthful answers. I was beginning to doubt my own standard’s, I always used the Grammar and Spell check as well as studying the required format to other published articles.

To my amazement, the editor although very sympathetic, and stated that my article was good, informed me that I had to be a credited writer. I asked how I could get that and she said by getting published. “For God’s sake give me a break!” I thought to myself after she said sorry and goodbye.

After that I knew I wasn’t to be beaten, I worked on other courses and wrote for my company magazine. Later I wrote for a local charity magazine for the Motor Neurone Disease Association and later became editor.

Now writing for myself again on Triond  has opened up a new world for me as I have now semi retired, I have discovered that I can write at my own pace with my own material and help my friends by reading their work. Yes, there are many who do not read or comment on my work. Some write so much I don’t have enough time to read and/or comment but they know that at some time I will comment. This will of course be encouraging or advice on their potential as they know.  I will not go into spelling or grammar because we all make mistakes at sometime and I do not want “egg on my face,” as the saying goes; another one is “Anyone who cannot write a mistake cannot write at all.”

Triond may not pay as well as anyone would wish, but don’t forget the Copyright is still ours. If we do see some of our work in public one day, we can say “we did that” and if you see it in that magazine, you should be entitled to that cut as we are paid by the amount of reads. If anyone out there knows of this, it should be addressed to Triond and to be fair the rest of us to ensure all are getting treated fairly.

If one wishes to enjoy Triond, carry on writing, painting, making films and taking photographs.  Log onto each other’s works and just tell you have looked at it, I am going to leave my name on each from now on. Some I will leave a comment depending if I have time or I may only leave one comment for all if there are many. If we all do that we can get the readership higher and be able to measure and monitor our volume. I also feel that if I enjoy certain works and friend I will read their works and hope they enjoy mine, it is all about friendship and having something in common. I feel if one doesn’t look at, and/or comment on your work they cannot be very interested in your work.

 THE END