Maryn
04-08-2004, 08:23 PM
I'm pleased to have found this site; my search for sites about writing turns up a lot of ego massage parlors and illiteracy.
("Each week their will be a writting excercise given with three topics that members can choose from. Then members will have one week to post their material for viewing. Then a pole will be used to determined the results." -- Creative Writing 101, Yahoo Groups Summary)
I write short stories (mainstream, mystery, suspense, and erotica), good enough to have a handful published, but as the market is fast disappearing I'm gearing up to write a novel. The concept is pretty good (if I do say so myself) but the complexity of plot that a novel deserves is daunting.
Recently my critique group of 12 years imploded, with only three survivors. Luckily, they're the best three, and we continue to meet every 2 weeks. The bitterness between the two factions remains, and that saddens me. These people were both friends and colleagues, and now, because their writing goals differed too much from ours, they're neither. (I swear we were gentle when we left.)
I signed up for my first writing class in many years. It starts in May, and is taught by a multiply-published novelist who 'auditioned' for the critique group but found it a poor fit for what he was doing. I'll be interested in whether he remembers me--and whether I was part of the bad fit. We'll see.
Maryn
("Each week their will be a writting excercise given with three topics that members can choose from. Then members will have one week to post their material for viewing. Then a pole will be used to determined the results." -- Creative Writing 101, Yahoo Groups Summary)
I write short stories (mainstream, mystery, suspense, and erotica), good enough to have a handful published, but as the market is fast disappearing I'm gearing up to write a novel. The concept is pretty good (if I do say so myself) but the complexity of plot that a novel deserves is daunting.
Recently my critique group of 12 years imploded, with only three survivors. Luckily, they're the best three, and we continue to meet every 2 weeks. The bitterness between the two factions remains, and that saddens me. These people were both friends and colleagues, and now, because their writing goals differed too much from ours, they're neither. (I swear we were gentle when we left.)
I signed up for my first writing class in many years. It starts in May, and is taught by a multiply-published novelist who 'auditioned' for the critique group but found it a poor fit for what he was doing. I'll be interested in whether he remembers me--and whether I was part of the bad fit. We'll see.
Maryn