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Figured as authors some of you may be interested in this proposal over on Area 51.
World Building Proposal
The current definition is:
Proposed Q&A site for creators (authors, game designers, artists, etc.) who are designing their own worlds, universes, continents, or the like, usually drawi...
Proposed Q&A site for creators (authors, game designers, artists, etc.) who are designing their own worlds, universes, continents, or the like, usually drawing heavily on real world science for accuracy and on how real societies come into existence.
That was how I was too in the beginning but I guess reading about on various meta posts and help section helped
and like the description says: "On Tuesdays, we write and discuss. On other days, we discuss and write. All are welcome."
On the weekly writing exercise, one person gives a topic. You have 10 minutes and a minimum number of words that need to be written.
You are to be ready with your blog (or some other writing platform that you can share here using a link) before the topic is dealt out. Once all members are ready, the person leading the chat gives the topic.
Once the ten minutes are over, everyone shares the link to their work, which is subsequently discussed/critiqued etc. There can be more topics given out (depending on how the chat is going).
That sounds like a brief summary...right? Comments @NeilFein?
The pot been steaming hot this morning. I'd special-ordered the beans and made the pot this morning, and had been looking forward to that first cup. As it brewed, the smell captivated me, like coffee from home. Before I escaped.
When the email came in, I thought it would take me just a few minutes to reply to it. But I ended up checking this and verifying that, and a few minutes stretched into an hour, and soon it was time for lunch and I was still researching background for the spreadsheet meant to accompany the presentation I was putting in the email reply. Ah, the glorious life of a tel…
I sometimes wonder...do writers really put in something from their past when they add that "vague mysterious past" element?
Nope. Not tonight. Got a major examination this weekend so studying parallelly for that. Would be able to participate more freely from next Tuesday onward.
I thought of a largely empty field with a small house in the middle of nowhere with a few children running around, half clothed, shouting at each other. All of this shot in "sepia" mode
I was wondering the same. It would really be cool if we had a collection of writings for each week in one common spot
What I really liked about your story was the fact that the narrator was being honest. He did not mind stating it right in the beginning: "before I escaped". This immediately sets the reader to a vague timeframe that is not polluted by the modern lifestyle. It transported me to a time when things mattered. Further, the narrator keeps dipping back into the past.
One can almost feel taking a sip or two of the coveted brew while at the same time realizing the fact that the brew is not the same (no matter how similar) to that one special one shared with friends on a Saturday morning. The fact that it was "a" Saturday morning and not "the" Saturday morning is also interesting to note in that it hints at the morning being not the only one.
That's alright :)
One is further touched by the fact that the narrator's father made an effort to send the coffee via a less "suspicious" (the "..." before the word adds to its weight) address. It further increases the value of coffee and the weight of the past in the entire flow.
Finally, towards the end the narrator is kind of "full" with the past and no longer really cares for the way "modernised" things are going. He ends up sending the email without really caring about it, while his heart is somewhere far back in Time.
For at the end, the things that matters was The untouched cup of coffee.
Sorry...kind of blabbered on and on...hope you did not mind too much
I always enjoy listening to what people think about when reading anything that I write...so I try and tell them what I think when I read their work (though not possible always)
It's hard for me to relate on some levels to a character like that, since I'm very outgoing and find it easy to talk to people. So it's good that you developed the protagonist somewhat in the story.
I was thinking about how we can keep a log of all the writing exercises. Each week after the session is over, the person who initiated the chat can post on Meta: <Month name> Week <no.>: Writing Exercise.
with details about the topic and the number of people participated. All the people who wrote/shared links can then put their writing as an answer. In case the person is not a member of Writers, someone else could post it on his/her behalf.
After 25th March 2014 writing exercise, a question came up about how do we keep a log of the exercises and its contents (refer this). In response to the same, I propose that we keep a log of the chat conversation this way:
I was thinking about how we can keep a log of all the writing exercise...
I am on a small journey to help me understand what the definition of a poem is to different people, what poems mean to them (I am an amateur of Literature).
This made me wonder, some poems are longer than others... how short can a poem be until it can no longer be a poem? What are your opinions...
Figured as authors some of you may be interested in this proposal over on Area 51.
World Building Proposal
The current definition is:
Proposed Q&A site for creators (authors, game designers, artists, etc.) who are designing their own worlds, universes, continents, or the like, usually drawi...
After 25th March 2014 writing exercise, a question came up about how do we keep a log of the exercises and its contents (refer this). In response to the same, I propose that we keep a log of the chat conversation this way:
I was thinking about how we can keep a log of all the writing exercise...
I am on a small journey to help me understand what the definition of a poem is to different people, what poems mean to them (I am an amateur of Literature).
This made me wonder, some poems are longer than others... how short can a poem be until it can no longer be a poem? What are your opinions...
The Overlook Hotel
The Overlook Hotel