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On-line writers groups
Danielle/Evie:
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--- Quote from: Mickey Finn on June 26, 2006, 03:19:25 PM ---*waiting for someone to suggest a writer's group being formed from these boards*
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Now that is a REALLY great idea.
Would anyone be interested in something like that? ;D
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See me here? I'M INTERESTED!
Danielle/Evie:
I was thinking about it today, and you know, it would be really easy to set up a blog or livejournal as a writers group. Say it was a livejournal....the group could set it up as private, then each story is a journal entry (all the members would be given the password and share the username) then the critiques could be comments. It would be really easy, and more importantly...FREE! I haven't actually participated in a writers group yet, but I thought it might work. I developed the same basic idea last year for my english class (book reviews/other comments on the book...my teacher ended up using the idea for a questions/answer blog that we were graded on).
If anyone's interested, I could set it up?
Or anyone else is perfectly free to just use the idea for themselves.
okay....later then.
-danielle
Dom:
Not sure if it's relevent to the thread, but I don't belong to any writer's groups. I tried a few times...and it just doesn't work for me. Mostly because I feel an obligation to crit something of the people who crit me, and I'm a hard critic, and I focus and write a lot when I sit down to crit someone's work. I don't just blow it over, I go, literally, line-by-line and note down what I see as both a reader and as a writer. It takes so much energy out of me, I end up "burning out" because I don't have the energy to keep the crits coming and also work on my stuff at the same time. I can do one or the other, but not both. Since I have a choice, I put the energy into my work most of the time, and stay away from circles where I am expected to critique things frequently, unless the person is a personal friend.
I do have people who read my stuff, but they do it because they like my stuff, not because they need to be critiqued in turn.
I'm just mentioning this because writer's groups are pushed very hard as Something To Do. And it's not mentioned very frequently that there are people who just don't get anything out of them, or can't do them. So I'm just throwing out an alternate viewpoint. It does seem that a lot of people do get something out of them. I'm just not one of them.
waywardclam:
I have to highly recommend Forward Motion, www.fm-writers.com, founded and operated by author Holly Lisle.
It's 100% free. Even better, it's mostly free of jerks and idiots.
Also note: Many pro authors, including Wen Spencer, Valerie Griswold-Ford, Lazette Gifford, and (friend of Jim Butcher) C.E. Murphy can sometimes be spotted there in chat... :D
waywardclam:
Although I'd ALSO be interested in a writing group here at this forum, if one starts.
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