I, personally, need several cans of whup-ass right now. How does this work? Nagging messages? Sending the boys round? What?
The thing is, Jay and Jeanne, none of us in this forum has a sense of humor. We would find no joy in being whipped by someone with a grotesque painted on smile, wearing big, floppy shoes, and a clown nose. Especially if the whip is made of licorice, which I understand yours are made of. We could take no pleasure in being hit in the face by banana cream pies tossed by twelve dwarves wearing firemen outfits as they exit a 1959 Volkswagen. We could not appreciate being scolded by Jerry Seinfeld.
Well, maybe Rllgthunder.
We write pain and we want pain. We need blood. Real blood. We need guts. Real guts. We need people who write what we write giving encouragement, offering advice and kicking ass with cloven hooves when necessary. That's why I want to try this here.
And if it doesn't work, we'll arm ourselves with scythes, rusty boy scout knives, and our fangs, and come over to visit y'all sometime after midnight some night when you least expect it.
It's a commitment. We all agree to check in sometime over the weekend, and report on our reaching or not reaching our writing goals for that previous week. We nag, we praise, we offer advice and occasionally break a few kneecaps.
Check through the thread I highlighted in the first post here and you'll get a better idea of how it works.
I'd love to have you along for the ride, Z.
It's a commitment. We all agree to check in sometime over the weekend, and report on our reaching or not reaching our writing goals for that previous week. We nag, we praise, we offer advice and occasionally break a few kneecaps.
Check through the thread I highlighted in the first post here and you'll get a better idea of how it works.
I'd love to have you along for the ride, Z.
Most excellent, Kerr. Are you putting it in SYW?
Why, I'd love to hop aboard. I'm hotly embarrassed that I'm still working on the same rewrite from a few tear-stained months ago, but I hereby commit to deciding on which version to go with and bloody well getting on with it to the 30-page mark.
That's written in blood, btw.
'Course! How else would you know I'm not pulling your tail? But everyone has to promise to go back and forth critting, even if it's just for the sake of knowing we're on track with the screams. Really! I'm becoming frightened that I've gotten too old to scare. What will S.K. do when he gets to that point?
That all depends on how well misbehaving you are at the time. We make allowances for uncontrolled fits of writing incoherent drivel just so long as there is sufficent suffering beforehand.What if we deliberately throw the goals for the spankings?
Will there be spankings?
What if we deliberately throw the goals for the spankings?
Will there be spankings?
*cracks knuckles, oils whips, strokes cat-o-nine-tails*Okay. I'm counting that as Spook being in too.
That makes seven.
Start thinking of your goals, people. Don't make me send Jaycinth, or Jeanne, or *gasp* Scarletpeaches over here to crack the whip.
Oh. Wait. You want that.
Well, nevermind. I'll think of something. You think about goals, and I'll do the same.
Okay. I'm counting that as Spook being in too.
That makes seven.
Start thinking of your goals, people. Don't make me send Jaycinth, or Jeanne, or *gasp* Scarletpeaches over here to crack the whip.
Oh. Wait. You want that.
Well, nevermind. I'll think of something. You think about goals, and I'll do the same.
Who's Miss Snark, BTW?
When would you like us to post our goals by? (Like how I ended that sentence? LOL)
I'll post on Friday or Saturday. You'll have a week to turn in your goals and your first reports. I know it's the holidays and all, but we've got to start sometime. Adjust your goals accordingly.
Spooky laid out some good goal ideas. Draw from them if you like or make up your own.
Me? I'm a weekend writer. During the week I occasionally write, but I'm more prone to edit or crit. Some weekends go by without me writing. That's got to stop. I expect abuse if I don't meet my own goals. You should expectabusegentle prodding if you don't reach yours. Or I'll bring Jeanne in here.
Everyone's situation is different. Some of us can or want to write daily. Some of us write slowly. Some of us write faster. Doesn't matter what the goal is. What matters is that we have a goal and that we strive to reach it. One goal I'd love to see everyone have is at least one sale (or agent bite or partial submission or full submission). I'm not mandating that by any means, but I think it would be healthy to focus on success.
I'll try to post my personal goals by Friday. Saturday at the latest.
Sound like a plan?
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I loooove it when they don't meet their goals. Just looooove it.I expect abuse if I don't meet my own goals. You should expectabusegentle prodding if you don't reach yours. Or I'll bring Jeanne in here.
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We here at Whips 'R' Us, love eager and enthusiastic customers.Bring on then cat-o-ninetails! Floggings for all of thee, and twice for me!
Pike