Sure it is... it just takes time for us to all loosen up and get to know each other. Personally, I have benefitted greatly from just this weekend's conversation. You have been a tremendous help.
Tell me something about yourself. What kind of writing experience do you have? What are you working on? If you were Queen of the World what would you do?
On the "ping" thread, someone posted an excerpt for critique. You might want to check it out.
If I were Queen of the World I would have my own zebra! Besides the two horses I own at present. I write fiction and I am lucky enough to have published. I am pretty well acquainted with editors, agents and publishers. I also know what works for me as a writer. I know when I am bored with my own inventions, there is something structurally wrong with it and it has taken me some time to figure out structure. You'll find that very, very few creative writing teachers know anything about structure. They weren't taught it themselves, and as our education system goes downhill, they really know less and less about what makes writing work. so they aren't helpful. And often enough, neither are editors. What am I working on? Well, the last mss. is now in production and so I am now fooling around with a folk-tale narrative. I have been reading all the post-apocalypse novels I can, to see what other writers have done with an alternative world --- a futuristic tale of what happens after civilization collapses. So I have recently read The Road, The Earth Abides, A Canticle For Liebowitz, and some others. And what about yourself? What sort of story are you working on?