Waterland.

No there is not

I feel two aspects, at least, were being discussed on the Self-Edit course.

The actual physical distance of the description, which would correlate more to the wide or medium or close shot, seemed to be part of it. It certainly turned up in examples. It did not, however, seem…[Read more]

For me, it’s partly habit. If I don’t have a reason to log on, it is all too easy to just…stop doing it. And once a tab is shut, my…[Read more]

Okay, I am going to set up the next class starting this coming Monday, so we have a few days to mentally prepare.

I figured I’d check as it is scheduled for tomorrow, but no posts have been made on Class 3, and I wondered if that meant people had been too busy with Christmas things etc.

Is a week longer enough time?

This time, we are going with a slightly longer stretch as it’s over the Christmas period. We will have closer to 6 weeks, with Class 4 starting on 6th January. This will give us all time to catch up, regroup, and deal with life over the festive season.

We once again begin with the class reading.

In your c…[Read more]

Technically, we’re at the end of the 3 weeks for Class 2.

I, for one, am kind of all over the place. I’ve read all the core reading, shared my gleanings from Class 1 at my IRL writing group, done some exercises with them, but not done the exercises for Class 2 at all or really got going on the other elements. I was also meaning to join…[Read more]

Once again, we are going with 3 weeks for this class and are beginning with the class reading.

In your copy of Janet Burroway’s Writing Fiction (tenth edition), please turn to Ch. 3: Building Character (44-45, 63-74) and get reading.

You may…[Read more]

I like the sound of your plan, Janeshuff. They look like good, realistic targets.

I am also being a bit lax in the commenting and writing exercises part, but will aim to be more active on it shortly.

Go ahead and share!

With regards to the next seminar, can we share thoughts on how it’s gone so far over the next few days.

If everyone is good with it, we can start the next…[Read more]

I have not done any exercises yet. I did I Remember for another thing a few weeks ago and I think confusion might be something that fixes memories for me!

The I Remember is highly evocative! It’s turned into a piece about your Grandad, hasn’t it?

I think I see what she is saying about them, in terms of them having the sounds and so on as part of the prose, but I didn’t really like two of them on a personal level. The third one was the one that struck me…[Read more]

Choose up to 6 tasks from the suggestions and note your choices in a reply to this topic.

In 3 months, you will be reminded to share your key…[Read more]

This is where we will share targets, discuss routines and generally chew over the process of establishing and maintaining a writing routine.

We have a task for the start of this segment:

Create a weekly/ fortnightly writing schedule using exercises and prompts.

You may also incorporate…[Read more]

We have allocated 3 weeks for this class (yes, you can have a toilet break when you need one, and plenty of tea or other beverage of choice is encouraged), and we are starting with the class reading.

In your copy of Janet Burroway’s Writing Fiction (te…[Read more]

Agreed on the group becoming private now and on posting to announce new units.

If everyone is okay with me doing so, I’ll set up threads on the relevant components once I have had a sleep, so they will be ready to go.

We have said 3 weeks for this class/segment, so hopefully we will all have our books in plenty of time to…[Read more]

1) Making each ‘class’ in the craft seminars span 3 weeks actually means that with the odd week taken off as a break, the craft seminars would fit nicely into 2 years without being massively heavy time-wise. A couple of hours a week, it reckons, doing it…[Read more]

For one thing, the writing practice can include the exercises for the craft seminars, or could be some of the ones Andrew suggests but which are not chosen for the craft…[Read more]