McAnally's (The Community Pub) > Author Craft
New Writer's Group from this Board
Mickey Finn:
It's the latter. If it's open to anybody, then anybody can wander in. If it's limitted to people who vouch for other people (and agree to a list of basic rules...and I do mean basic here, things like "I shalt not steal." Unlike most writing groups, I'm not going to say you have to read everything to post, or anything like that...that's a nightmare, imho, when there's more than one person you're critiquing), it's safer for the authors.
Some people who aren't writers but want to help may have accounts.
fjeastman:
I'd probably at least try to give it a run.
Humdrum has been keeping me from the pen recently, rethinking the basic idea of what I'd been writing. It wasn't ... fun ... enough.
That and I keep getting my scifi in my supernatural. Someplace to workshop would be ... entertaining.
Unfortunately, I've had some cruddy experiences with online workshopping groups.
It would be ... nice ... if there were some participation from one or more published authors. Just because it's nice to hear some words on craft from the folks where the rest of us wish we were.
If the problem getting the board set up is hosting space or software, I do have a webhost and domain. Pretty much the wife and I use it for tinkering around and hosting our resumes. I use about 1/100th of the bandwidth I pay for and it has several ready-set BB programs I could dump on it and set up. Just an offer, not trying to step on toes or anything.
--fje
Mickey Finn:
I'll keep that in mind, should we run into weirdness with Invision, thanks! :)
I've talked to Aethon, and will start up on this again later this week, after the party guests go home.
BTW, the board will have some minor authors on board for sure, myself and Claudia Smith. We've both done editing work as well, and have our hands sunk deep, deep into the world of talking to authors and getting real world advice, which we'll pass on.
Abstruse:
Most of what I write is screenplays, though I do have a novel or two I tinker with now and then. Would that be a problem? I guess this would be a community decision more than anything else...would these boards be strictly for prose or would any type of fiction be allowed? Or non-fiction for that matter?
Also, what if any would be the restrictions of file formats for uploading? I use either Word or Open Office for my prose, but I use Final Draft for screenplays which I can export as a .pdf file preferably, but also .doc Word and .htm but the formatting goes to hell and it gets hard to read sometimes.
The Abstruse One
Darryl Mott Jr.
Mickey Finn:
Screenplays should not be a problem, although you may have less people with proper knowledge of format.
Same goes for poetry.
As for uploads...I'd say whatever floats your boat that the board will support. I'll probably actually post mine in pieces, and take them down as needed. (IE, when I've gotten enough comments)
Suggestions for things to put in the EULA?
(I shall not steal other people's ideas, I realize that if someone steals my own ideas that the moderators and Invision shall not be held responsible, I will play nice, etc)
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