Chatroom!
One of my trek comms has a chat room and they have a weekly writers' get together. I thought it might be nice for this comm, so I created a room.
The chat is now being run bi-weekly, on Friday nights (10 p.m.) and Sunday afternoons (2 p.m.). It should be someplace where you can brainstorm, try out new ideas, maybe run some writing challenges/games, etc.
There are also episode re-watches on Tuesday evenings (9 p.m.) and Sunday mornings (9 a.m.)
(All times above are New York City time, aka Neal and Peter time, aka E.S.T.)
Things to know about the chatroom:
(1) There are "scheduled chats" as noted above, but obviously anyone can use the room at any time. The scheduled times are only so (a) you knew you weren't the only one showing up and (b) to get people to remember the room and use it.
(2) Absolutely anyone can use it. You don't need an LJ to join the chatroom, and you don't need to necessarily be part of this comm. All you have to do is type whatever name you want to use in the room in the below white box. So if there are writers (or your beta) on other things (forum, ff.net, dw, etc.), they can use the room too, and you can arrange a chat with anyone you like.
(3) The room is private. There is no log. Neither I nor anyone else can see who is in it or what you are saying in there. This means you can feel free to chat about your story ideas or debate wording or whatever freely with anyone else without worrying its being seen by everyone. The only way to know what's going on or who is in there is to be part of the chat.
We have a fancy schmancy awesome chatroom set up by the awesome and talented angelita. It is an IRC client-based room, and can be found here:
https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.kiwiirc.com/wcwu
or
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wcwu&uio=d4
The old room, which (like Mozzie) has some kicking you out randomly and only working when it is in the mood issues, is still here, and can also be used whenever you like!
Hope you find it useful!
The chat is now being run bi-weekly, on Friday nights (10 p.m.) and Sunday afternoons (2 p.m.). It should be someplace where you can brainstorm, try out new ideas, maybe run some writing challenges/games, etc.
There are also episode re-watches on Tuesday evenings (9 p.m.) and Sunday mornings (9 a.m.)
(All times above are New York City time, aka Neal and Peter time, aka E.S.T.)
Things to know about the chatroom:
(1) There are "scheduled chats" as noted above, but obviously anyone can use the room at any time. The scheduled times are only so (a) you knew you weren't the only one showing up and (b) to get people to remember the room and use it.
(2) Absolutely anyone can use it. You don't need an LJ to join the chatroom, and you don't need to necessarily be part of this comm. All you have to do is type whatever name you want to use in the room in the below white box. So if there are writers (or your beta) on other things (forum, ff.net, dw, etc.), they can use the room too, and you can arrange a chat with anyone you like.
(3) The room is private. There is no log. Neither I nor anyone else can see who is in it or what you are saying in there. This means you can feel free to chat about your story ideas or debate wording or whatever freely with anyone else without worrying its being seen by everyone. The only way to know what's going on or who is in there is to be part of the chat.
We have a fancy schmancy awesome chatroom set up by the awesome and talented angelita. It is an IRC client-based room, and can be found here:
https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.kiwiirc.com/wcwu
or
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wcwu&uio=d4
The old room, which (like Mozzie) has some kicking you out randomly and only working when it is in the mood issues, is still here, and can also be used whenever you like!
Hope you find it useful!