Kicked out of my home group
Warning this is sort of long:
So, as of last night I was kicked out of my home group for two reasons. First one I honestly didn't think was bad, the second might be due to politics.
Here is what happened, prior to becoming sober my main (and still is) source of income comes from stand up comedy and writing. About a month ago I was hit up by someone from another group to help with the entertainment side of an event/fundraiser. They wanted comics, they were not paying and the talent had to be in recovery. Had to fill (esp not paying part) so I hand picked four people, wrote all their material worked with them and we managed to pull it off. Minor hiccups, little bit of stage fright but they did a good job and I was proud as I could be. Now for their issue with me, I closed the show and did a 15 min set. 5 minutes bullshitting, 5 minutes of holiday recap / crowd work. My last five was comparing AA to NA, crowd was mixed with both and loved. The organizers, not so much. They did not like being compared b/c I guess I made NA seem more lively and AA rather dull.
The 2nd issue which lead to me being 86 was something I wrote. At a meeting I left my bag and someone read a treatment I was writing for a publisher which I still plan on turning into a book. Not gonna give away the plot but it is a murder mystery set in a recovery group. I took some liberties and based some of the characters on people I have come across in my time in recovery. At no point did I name names, but it was sort of obvious who the characters are based off of. But a lot of characters sprinkled in from different groups. Upon retrieving my bag the treatment was gone (thankfully it is backed up) but it was just a draft that needed editing. The elders of the group then texted me that I needed to come down and discuss it. You would think I wrote an expose on Colombo Family the was I was treated, like I exposed the KGB's secret files or something. Baring in mind the parts about the process and step work was very minor and only served as a small background to a wider story. Some criticism of how groups were run, some of ideology but really nothing to do with the over all story.
They think I was mocking the recovery process and calling them frauds, either was I am no longer allowed at my home group anymore and it was told to me that I would be more than likely be banned from other meetings.