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PatB
I love your new name of 'Rosie's Writers' and I really enjoyed Rumor's comment in there, that would really interest me because I have so much to learn about writing.
posted by
WileyJohn
on March 9, 2012 at 4:41 PM
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Pat, I wonder if a group like this could work by email
and perhaps Skype...Maybe when I'm up to it, I'll look into it more - 3 or 4 people to share their writings with and not be afraid to accept criticism, both good and bad...hmmm....
posted by
Rumor
on March 9, 2012 at 3:49 PM
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Being in the right writer's group is the thing.
I decided that, when I tried one on at the local Barnes&Noble. It was a group of mostly diffident people declaring themselves writers in either defiant or apologetic tones. They were writing memoirs, or romance or... I don't remember what. No one there wrote nor read the kind of gothic historic fantasy I was working on. I didn't get their stuff, they didn't get mine. So no one could give particularly useful comment or critique. I tried for 3 weeks, 3 sessions, and dropped out.
posted by
Ciel
on March 9, 2012 at 3:31 PM
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PAT, I only dare criticise two people on blogit, because they know I am only teasing.
Some people are ultra sensitive and I would not criticize any ones work, because it does not really matter. I am afraid there is a cruel world out there. Once I wrote a book about a village and all the characters .I thought it was great, I sent a couple of pages away to someone and was horrified to receive many adverse comments. Although I had an offer for it to be rewritten at a pretty high price I guess. I remember the first comment was that you must always have double spacing between the lines. I don't think I had that option on my old typewriter. Just look at Amazon e-book's are being knocked out at 1-90 and a good many are free. They did not write themselves and I cannot see the authors making much out of it . A woman told me she was going to write a book about the lady who wrote Peter Rabbit, I think it was Beatrice Potter .I thought well it will make a nice hobby.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 9, 2012 at 10:37 AM
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It will be good for you too to mix with some like wise people and I admire
your Rosie. I am a wimp.
posted by
Kabu
on March 9, 2012 at 7:43 AM
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Pat
Should be fun, and if not for you, at least for us! I have always got a kick out of tales of your encounters with a variety of ladies, and even some of the guys. Which reminds me - we haven't heard about the two J's for a long time...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 9, 2012 at 7:32 AM
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