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Working on a collaboration for an anthology called "Joining Forces." They want stories where two characters combine forces to solve a problem - and they say that two authors would be "doubly awesome." So a friend from my local writing group and I are going to introduce one of her characters to a velyr. I'm using my private investigator from "Scent of Money" because her character's "job" is finding children who have been kidnapped and sent through time (it's a novel-length story and it's not mine so I won't get into the details). This time, when the guy shows up, he learns that the child has gotten lost and the velyr is on his trail. It'll take both of them because, although the time-traveling fellow is also telepathic, the child has no idea where he is and so cannot direct them to the right place. Badi, on the other hand, can smell the kid and with a few hints from the telepathic messages, can figure out which part of the city park the child has wandered into. We have a whole 15,000 words to play with, too, so we can take our time and create a great story.
I didn't get many critiques on my fairy tale story this week, which is rather sad. I can't figure out how to motivate the members to actually participate. Only two of us seem to be writing anything and only 3 or 4 members are actually critiquing. What to do ... what to do? The problem is, I don' t know if they're just not writing anything themselves or if they're just not critiquing. Maybe an honest group letter would help ...
I didn't get many critiques on my fairy tale story this week, which is rather sad. I can't figure out how to motivate the members to actually participate. Only two of us seem to be writing anything and only 3 or 4 members are actually critiquing. What to do ... what to do? The problem is, I don' t know if they're just not writing anything themselves or if they're just not critiquing. Maybe an honest group letter would help ...