Jayne ,'The Train Job'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
re: online crit groups
Got to shout out to my critters at the Other Worlds Writer's Workshop (Yeah, OWWW. It hurts sometimes). It's science fiction and fantasy, though, not mainstream fic. There's also a fantasy/scifi romance group that spun off recently.
Both small groups with required crits/month to keep things moving, both moderated. In case anybody's interested.
Ms. H, you're a gem. Many thanks.
Yeah, OWWW. It hurts sometimes
(giggling)
"Mothers Opposed to the Occult. MOO. Nice acronym, Mom!"
(sorry, I simply couldn't help that.....)
Or like in White Teeth by Zadie Smith where the Islamic radical group is "KEVIN" and everyone says "We have an acronym problem." I love that book but hate Ms. Smith as she has published a best-seller and she is 26. :)
Comfort yourself with Harriet Dorr, whose first novel, "Stones For Ibarra", was published when she was 74.
I do.
Oh, ok. And Frank McCourt.
And Theodora Kroeber.
Is that Ursula K. LeGuin's mom? Did she start late as an anthropologist?
She started late as a writer. She wrote "Ishi in Two Worlds" when she was well into her fifties, and went on to write several other books.
LeGuin thinks it's a shame she waited so long to start writing, but she did write, and "Ishi" has been in print nonstop for what, 40 years? It's pretty much read by every kid to graduate from the California public school system.
The thing is, it's possible some people aren't ripe earlier. "She was always a great writer" is something you can't know. Maybe she was right in thinking she didn't have anything to say... yet.