Time to steal from the best! I am raiding Readercon's program schedule for stuff that might be fun to discuss for those of us stuck at home. And on today's schedule, there's: Writing Groups and Writers, a Match Made in Heaven or Hell?
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I wanted to discuss is a workshop technique I've been using for ages with junior high creative writers and high school same. When I'm asked to do workshops I am always trying to invent ways to get the focus on their work, and edit the "me" out of the equation: they are not there to see me, they are there to look into the mirror I fashion. How to ( Read more... )

Anyway, a couple of people mentioned workshopping and critiquing as a separate subject. There's been lots of discussion on these subjects (check out not only the posting but the comments that coffeeem got here).
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I've got a question for anyone cruising through.
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Well, I had my narrative voice conversation with the workshopper I mentioned in a previous post. Before we got to my response on the ms, the person (hereinafter referred to as Q so I don’t get my feet tangled up pronounal octopoids) read me a response from a Big Name Agency ( Read more... )

I'm workshopping a ms that I really love. In fact I'd rather read it than some of this pile of published books (that I've already picked over pretty often). It's not a matter of if this thing will sell, but where. A fantasy, its magic system alone scintillates with kewlness, and then there's there characters! But. I do see something that might ( Read more... )