Standing Into Danger: November 2025

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

IWSG: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 ~ Dreams Deferred

It's the first Wednesday of the month,
the day that members of the
Insecure Writer's Support Group
share their writing struggles
and writing successes
and offer their encouragement
and support to fellow writers.

To visit the IWSG website, click here.

To become a member of the IWSG, click here.

Our wonderful co-hosts who are volunteering today,
along with IWSG Founder Alex J. Cavanaugh are

Jennifer Lane, Jenni Enzor, Renee Scattergood, Rebecca Douglass, Lynn Bradshaw, and Melissa Maygrove!

Stop by their posts and thank them for hosting.

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Every month the IWSG announces a question that members can answer
with advice, insight, a personal experience, or a story in their IWSG posts.

Or, the question can inspire members
if they aren't sure what to write about on IWSG Day.

Remember the question is optional.

This month's optional question is:

When you began writing, what did you imagine your life as a writer would be like? Were you right, or has this experience presented you with some surprises along the way?

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Happy November, Everyone!

I hope all is well with each of you.

The first stories I remember writing was when I was eight and nine in third grade.

But as much as I enjoyed writing them, I knew I would not make my living as a writer.

Christmas Eve 1958 ~ The Year I Began Writing

My Brother Roy and I (Holding Gretchen Still)

with My Sisters Barb and Donnie

My youngest Sister Bertie would be born in March 1959.

Margaretsville, Nova Scotia, Canada

I knew from the time I was three or four that I was expected to go to university,

and not just any university, but Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

It was drilled into me that I would become a strong, independent woman

who could stand on my own two feet and not be dependent on a man to support me.

University Hall, Acadia University

Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

2000s ~ Date Uncertain

Seventy years ago this was a radical idea in Atlantic Canada,

but it came from the struggles of women on both sides of my family,

women who were widowed and left to support themselves and sometimes their children.

My father was as determined as my mother that their four daughters

would graduate from university as well as their only son.

And we all did graduate from Acadia.

My Great Grandmother Sara Cossaboom ~ One Very Strong Woman

Widowed at a Young Age with Four Girls to Raise

Smith's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada ~ Date Unknown

I wrote a lot during my careers as a geologist and a teacher,

but my creative writing dreams were deferred.

I did manage to publish a few creative things ~

but I wasn't able to focus on my nonprofessional writing until I retired.

And that's perfectly okay!

I'm proud of myself for becoming a strong, independent woman

able to stand on my own two feet.

I have experienced great joy in my retirement years as a blogger, a writer of short stories,

a diarist/journalist, and a memoirist.

I have big writing dreams that I continue to pursue.

Finally a Real Writer!

Copies of Voyager: The Third Ghost Arrive

Photo by Terry Barbour, May 2020

My Writing Space in Our Newly Renovated Kitchen

Aurora, Colorado, USA

October 22, 2025

It's going to be fun to see how others have answered this month's question.

Have a healthy, happy, and creative November!

Take care!

Till next time ~

Fundy Blue

Standing Into Danger https://selkiegrey4.blogspot.com

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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

IWSG: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 ~ Dreams Deferred