Posted on 03/23/2007 11:44:31 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Squarebarb:
There were some of us including GOPpoet who were thinking of starting a writer's thread here on FR. There's a horse thread, a football thread, a Hobbit Hole thread, so why not a thread for us writers?
And mainly sticking to fiction otherwise the discussion tends toward politicsa iinstead of the craft of writing.
Okay Eleutheria5, YOU start the thread."
Eleutheria5:
On it. Could use some help from someone who knows how to do HTTP and other techy stuff, though. Tried to learn, but drat that right hemisphere dominance we creative folks have. I've actually been running a board on the aol writers' club since 1996 called Conservative Writers' Club. Mostly it simply fights flame wars with liberal writers, though, and all the conservative contributors, including me, burn out. It'd be great to get away from that and just swap ideas with people who DON'T wish every one of us a flaming death.
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Agreed. Just sit down and start blathering on paper. It's called 'freewriting'. You'll get something within a few pages.
Okay, I vote that the next person who deliberately corrects E5's spelling should be summarily booted from the club, or at the very least lashed soundly with a dangling participle.
Split their infinitives!
If you create a ping list please put me on it.
That's absolutely and profoundly untrue.
Some of us are openly horror writers.
My horror publication has only been in the smallest of ways...I sold a short story to Deathrealm magazine something over a decade ago, and last year I sold a couple of horror radio plays to a project that folded before they went to press. I'm proudest of the radio plays, though...they were some of my best work, and the audio-only constriction is great for my creativity.
"Okay, I vote that the next person who deliberately corrects E5's spelling should be summarily booted from the club, or at the very least lashed soundly with a dangling participle."
Gee kan aye dangel mai partisipul inn heer tu?
Get drunk.
Keep paper and pen handy.
When you feel the buzz coming, let your mind wander.
As soon as you can, write down thoughts. Just thoughts, not sentences. (they tend to travel upward off the line and then the page, trust me)
You may surprise yourself and become Hemmingway style writer.
"I'll help administer this Righters ping list if you need help with it. I think it's a great idea. I know I always do better if I have people to bounce ideas off of or simply tell about what problems I'm having."
Thanks. Whew. I was worried I'd have to learn what a ping list is.
When you write on a schedule, there's no such thing as writer's block. It's not allowed to exist. When it's time to write, it's time to bloody well write, and you put words on the page.
It doesn't matter if it's not your best work. That's what drafts are for.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That'll teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Dangel awae, bayb!
Or how to ping.
Please add me to the ping list.
It was a good idea. Then it rained. He died.
"When it's time to write, it's time to bloody well write, and you put words on the page."
Amen to that. When they pay you by the hour, the word "writers block" is not in their vocabulary.
I just say: Fake it till you make it. Just keep pushin them participles around till somethin jells.
Eventually it will.
Right?
"Rightist writers writing rightly"
That would make almost as good a logo as "abandon hope all ye who enter here" or "E pluribus unum"
Victoria, the dark haired beauty serving his drink, glanced at the screen. “These things always end badly.”
“Yes they do darling, but we do them anyway.”
Her smoky eyes boldly met his. “Hmm, another arrogant male, who thinks he can call me darling. Here’s my number. I’m off at 6.”
I just made up. But thanks.
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