Every week, a writer would submit his work, and the rest would critique it, and give suggestions for how to make it better.
Our participants are:
Kor
mangaluva
Kaito Lady
CoolKid94 (potentially/eventually)
alicetama
aly_angelflight
bluekaitou1412
History:
01/24/14 - mangaluva
01/31/14 - Kor
02/07/14 - mangaluva
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Current Schedule:
05/16/14 - CoolKid94 and Catching up
05/23/14 - CoolKid94 and Catching up
05/30/14 - slot open
More people are welcome to join.
Participation: Whoever wants to participate (as in, submit your work so others can critique it), needs also to read and critique the works of the other writers. If you're super-busy and don't have time to read at a certain week (due to exams, work, etc.), just let everyone know, and you can read later. Beyond reading, though, it's very important to give your thoughts about what you read.
In case someone doesn't want to write, but just wants to read and critique, he/she obviously is welcome.
Guidelines for writers:
Acceptable kinds of works:
Short stories
Novels
Screenplays
(Feel free to suggest other types in case you feel something else should be included)
Length of piece you can submit (can change in the future):
Short story - the whole story (if it's not finished, but you really want to submit what you have so far, it's fine too)
Novel - one chapter (two, if the first chapter is very short)
Screenplays - up to 40 pages
In case your turn is coming up, and you still don't have your piece ready, take an extension of a day or two, but if you feel even that won't be enough, let everyone know, so perhaps another writer can submit a piece instead, and your turn will be reserved for later.
Guidelines for critiques:
Jd- gave some pretty good pointers: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=12136#p795994
Critiques will be posted in this thread.
Distribution of pieces: via email. There will be a list of email addresses the writer would have to send his piece to. Format of documents will be determined in the future (for now, it will most likely vary)
Any questions or comments regarding the group can be posted in this thread.
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Idea stage. Leaving for future references.
So like, this was mentioned a few months ago, so how about trying to develop this idea?
Okay, so the point of this Writing Group should be helping others become better writers, critique, discuss, suggest ideas, read, having fun, and most importantly, write.
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Below is a framework I came up with at 3 AM. This is merely suggestive and (for now) isn't definitive).
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If we're really gonna do this, though, we need a clear format of how it's going to work. Here's what I suggest:
Every week one member submits a piece of writing he/she wants others to read and critique. We'll have a list of the writers and dates so everyone knows when it is their turn to submit their piece. All pieces must be fiction.
Acceptable kinds of works:
Short stories
Novels
Screenplays
(Feel free to suggest other types in case you feel something else should be included)
Length of piece you can submit:
Short story - the whole story (if it's not finished, but you really want to submit what you have so far, it's fine too)
Novel - one chapter (two, if the first chapter is very short)
Screenplays - up to 40 pages (this seems like a reasonable length to me, considering screenplays are pretty easy to read)
If we see after the first two weeks that the system above works really well, we'll try to do two pieces per week (so basically two writers submit their piece).
In case your turn is coming up, and you still don't have your piece ready, take an extension of a day or two, but if you feel even that won't be enough, let everyone know, so perhaps another writer can submit a piece instead, and your turn will be reserved for later.
Participation: Whoever wants to participate (as in, submit your work so others can critique it), needs also to read and critique the works of the other writers. If you're super-busy and don't have time to read at a certain week (due to exams, work, etc.), just let everyone know, and you can read later. Beyond reading, though, it's very important to give your thoughts about what you read.
In case someone doesn't want to write, but just wants to read and critique, he/she obviously is welcome.
Critiquing: This is a difficult area regarding guidelines. You should be able to write more than just "I liked it" or "thought it was good". Try to critique the writing, the plot, the characters, etc. Give suggestions on how to improve the piece. If you don't think anything needs to be fixed, at least say what you liked and why you liked it.
Do not summarize what you've read and call it a review or a critique. Not saying any of you are going to do that, but just in case.
Submissions: I think it should be done over email in either a PDF or a Word document.
The critiques should probably be posted in the official thread of the group, for the sake of creating a discussion.
I think we'll also need a supervisor to be on top of things and make sure everything is in order (keep track of the turns, make sure people post their critiques, etc.)
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Any comments/ideas?
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