There's a new homepage for our creative writing group. You can find it here:
Creative Writing Society OldenburgI had fun making it, even though it's nothing special. There's a member list that links to the individual homepages of the writers, and a small download section, which I will expand over time. I will also post writing prompts after each ( Read more... )

2012 has come and gone - and it actually brought a lot of changes for me. Mostly work-related. In the end I didn't had as much time for writing as I imagined I would have. But all in all that's a good thing. I hope that the trend will keep going, and that I'll find a new job. If not full-time than at least half-time. Of course, this means even less ( Read more... )

violah hat mich mit ihrer Mail auf ein evtl Missverständnis gestoßen. Deshalb hier noch mal die Klarstellung:

Niemand, der keinen Roman schreibt, muss völlig aussteigen!

Die Zeit der Präsentationen und des Plottens sind vorbei. Ab jetzt wird es bei den Treffen wieder themenbezogene Schreibaufgaben geben, die dann entweder mit Bezug auf den Roman oder ( Read more... )

At yesterday's meeting , we didn't get round to decide on a date for the next one.
So, would you prefer Friday, June 1st, or Friday, June 8th?

Also, here's the writing exercise we didn't had time to do at the meeting. If you sit down and write something, I would love to read the dialogues. So, please, post your answers in your blogs.

Task: Setting in ( Read more... )

Well, our last meeting went well, didn't it?
My plot developed a lot, even if it seemed to change at least once every ten minutes. *lol*

Now, with a week gone, I'd like to know how you liked the last meeting. Was it beneficial for your plotting?
And, what do you think that we should work on next time? The next meeting will be about plot again, so this ( Read more... )

I have just now finished with the preparations for our next creative writing meeting tomorrow. The powerpoint presentation is 52 sheets long! But still - there is less material in it than there was in the last one. We should be able to work through it without a problem tomorrow evening.
Still, better be prepared for a long evening everyone.
There ( Read more... )

I've just now finished preparing the Powerpoint presentation for the upcoming meeting on Friday ( Read more... )

I promised you an exercise as a warm-up for our novel-writing project this year. So, here it is, now.
It's mostly preliminary considerations regarding your own wishes and writing style, so it has nothing to do with your story idea yet.

I think it might be best if you tackle the following tasks and/or questions as a kind of pre-novel-writing ( Read more... )

My plans for the new schedule have reached a point now, where I feel confident enough to give you the list of books I will refer to during the up-coming meetings.
I figured that, just in case one of you is interested in reading or owning the whole book, I should put the list online before the meetings.

The list isn't sorted by any specific order. And ( Read more... )

Here is the reworked schedule for this year's meetings. I worked on it for about 12 hours now. As you can see, I've kicked out a whole lot of topics (e.g. poetry, essay writing). I have also 'streamlined' the whole schedule to fit the popular demand for the meetings to support the novel-writing endeavours most of us want to embark on in 2012.

The ( Read more... )