All right, that happened. First of all I'm sorry for causing this gigantic shitstorm, And to be honest I was quite surprised to see all of this when I woke up this morning. Before I clarify what I meant in my OP I think it might be better to point a few things out:
- I did not want to create another group
- The workshop is great for having your work reviewed and critiqued by other members of the community, that's what it is made for. The problem I, as a writer, would have is that non CB content has the habit of being drowned in said CB content. It might be an idea to have people tag their workshop posts depending on what group they are meant for and have a link to said tag on the front page.
- My OP was definitively not clear enough, I apologise for this and take away from it that writing on mobile during lectures is not the way to go.
- Okan's idea of a writing group (although I would limit it to be thread or something) seems like a great idea and should definitively be considered.
So now that that's out of the way, let's get back to my suggestion.
I have been writing short paragraphs lately to hone my skills as a writer, they are often disconnected from my novel or any work I've planned for this group or it's post-apocalypse counterpart. It are basicly just snippets of text with a certain theme, as I said: descriptions, openings, final paragraphs and the like. And I was thinking that it might be a fun thought to organise something similar for the group. But in the form of a challenge of some kind
By this I mean that I would like to create a thread, similar to the writer's discuss pages, where writer's could show how they approach certain parts of their prose, or certain situations given in at the start of the thread, however instead of discussing the subject, they would have to write a paragraph (not necessarily related to their works). And have feedback on the technical aspect of the written paragraph for example. I would also link a few articles assertaining to the treated subject so that each writer could have a look at them before posting and consider how they want to approach it.
Here's an example:
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Titel of the whole thing: Subject (let's say description)
Useful links:
Small introductional text
A list of the challenges:
- Describe your main protagonist from the point of view of your main antagonist
- Describe the landscape seen in this picture (link to the picture in question, as I said, just an example)
- ....
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As said before all of the above is an example, but I would really like to know what you guys think of this, however as I think I have caused enough cluttering of the Help thread I would suggest putting your opinion over here:
http://tamrielvault.com/group/the-backstory-corner/forum/topics/sharpened-quills-a-proposition
All right, that happened. First of all I'm sorry for causing this gigantic shitstorm, And to be honest I was quite surprised to see all of this when I woke up this morning. Before I clarify what I meant in my OP I think it might be better to point a few things out:
- I did not want to create another group
- The workshop is great for having your work reviewed and critiqued by other members of the community, that's what it is made for. The problem I, as a writer, would have is that non CB content has the habit of being drowned in said CB content. It might be an idea to have people tag their workshop posts depending on what group they are meant for and have a link to said tag on the front page.
- My OP was definitively not clear enough, I apologise for this and take away from it that writing on mobile during lectures is not the way to go.
- Okan's idea of a writing group (although I would limit it to be thread or something) seems like a great idea and should definitively be considered.
So now that that's out of the way, let's get back to my suggestion.
I have been writing short paragraphs lately to hone my skills as a writer, they are often disconnected from my novel or any work I've planned for this group or it's post-apocalypse counterpart. It are basicly just snippets of text with a certain theme, as I said: descriptions, openings, final paragraphs and the like. And I was thinking that it might be a fun thought to organise something similar for the group. But in the form of a challenge of some kind
By this I mean that I would like to create a thread, similar to the writer's discuss pages, where writer's could show how they approach certain parts of their prose, or certain situations given in at the start of the thread, however instead of discussing the subject, they would have to write a paragraph (not necessarily related to their works). And have feedback on the technical aspect of the written paragraph for example. I would also link a few articles assertaining to the treated subject so that each writer could have a look at them before posting and consider how they want to approach it.
Here's an example:
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Titel of the whole thing: Subject (let's say description)
Useful links:
Small introductional text
A list of the challenges:
- Describe your main protagonist from the point of view of your main antagonist
- Describe the landscape seen in this picture (link to the picture in question, as I said, just an example)
- ....
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As said before all of the above is an example, but I would really like to know what you guys think of this, however as I think I have caused enough cluttering of the Help thread I would suggest putting your opinion over here:
http://tamrielvault.com/group/the-backstory-corner/forum/topics/sharpened-quills-a-proposition
