Weight of Water (link to YouTube video)

The video is of my creative writing tutor promoting her work and Lancaster’s Litfest.  “Why is she putting this here?” you may ask.

Well, when I saw this embedded on Mollie’s Facebook page it struck me how many different ways we can use the internet to promote and inform people on things that would have been missed/never thought or heard of BW (before www). I knew the Litfest happened but never really thought about it (bad for a writer I know) so had never experienced what went on.

Now the Litfest can have a webpage (see link above) and Mollie and the other writers can promote their writing in creative and different ways. For instance, I’m not a great poetry reader. I like Spike Milligan’s Silly Verse for Kids and Shel Silverstein’s book ‘Don’t Bump the Glump’ but beyond that I can never really see the point. However, hearing Mollie speak the words she has written gave them a whole new level of understanding and feeling that I would have totally missed.

So if YouTube and Facebook hadn’t been invented I would have sailed on through life not realising how good (some) poetry could sound.

Maybe I might venture out one evening to a poetry reading - just to hear what it’s like. That’s something I would never have thought of before now. Yuck, poetry! I would have said.

Off to look at any other videos the Litfest writers may have put up. Expand my horizons just that smidgeon further…