How does one generally go about finding a writer's group? I hope to hook up with one when I go back to St. Louis.
Have you ever been with a warrior woman?
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Anne W. - Feb 08, 2005 8:04:16 am PST #9814 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
erikaj - Feb 08, 2005 8:07:15 am PST #9815 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm totally the bomb with cornerspeak now...for a suburban white girl. You feel me?(I'd better stop. Linguistic earworm.) Who knows? The book tanks, I may have a future in "freelance pharmaceuticals"...nah. Don't like the retirement plan. I feel pretty Best.Description.Evah. Smart is sexy.
Connie Neil - Feb 08, 2005 8:07:33 am PST #9816 of 10001
brillig
That's a good point, Susan. If someone picks up a book or story, they've at least shown an interest in the tropes.
Susan W. - Feb 08, 2005 8:10:39 am PST #9817 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Anne, mine evolved out of a class I took at the local community college. And there are several critique groups within my RWA chapter--that's how I met my critique partner who also writes Regencies. So I'd say look for writing classes or join a writers organization.
erikaj - Feb 08, 2005 8:12:42 am PST #9818 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I tried the library. That group sucked.
deborah grabien - Feb 08, 2005 8:38:26 am PST #9819 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Hey.
I am fine with long, elegant sentences, preferably broken in mid-thought by the judicious use of the semi-colon; it allows the reader a very quick breath.
I have no trouble with description. It's a thing. But I try to write periods in which I have some familiarity. I don't necessarily agree with "write what you know", but "know what you write" makes some sense to me.
Connie Neil - Feb 08, 2005 8:39:34 am PST #9820 of 10001
brillig
Oh, look who's back. How were the trips?
Scrappy - Feb 08, 2005 8:42:11 am PST #9821 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I don't necessarily agree with "write what you know", but "know what you write" makes some sense to me.
Love this.
lisah - Feb 08, 2005 8:43:02 am PST #9822 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
mine evolved out of a class I took at the local community college
This was basically how I found the great group I was a part of back in SF.
deborah grabien - Feb 08, 2005 8:59:22 am PST #9823 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Oh, look who's back. How were the trips?
Well, I'm no longer puking my guts out, and neither is Nic, which is a good thing, since we put over 1000 miles on the fucking car this weekend.
Trip was fine. Bookstore ran out of copies of FFoSM and had to buy three of mine, which they got at a discount, and for which they paid cash. Nic called it the purest example of "will write for food" he'd ever seen; we took the money and had dinner with it.
I am not, however, particularly "back". Our house and lives will be in complete chaos for another week; the floors are being done and the house is the seventh level of hell right now.
This week's topics is opposites? Huh. Good topic. Will consider when awake and functional.
We actually have an empty chair in my twice-monthly writers group at the moment, since one of our writers, Ken Howard Wilan, had to move back to Boston and is now part of the online segment only.