Need structure? Want to find camaraderie? Tired of writing in solitude? Join our virtual office space. At TPR someone is always in the cubicle next to you.

Here's how the practice room works:

First of all, EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

At the given date and time (weekly schedule posted below), meet at post 1. It appears 30 minutes in advance of the hour (barring unusual circumstances), giving us a chance to set our goals in the comments. Declare your goal. Work toward furthering your project; word counting, revision, or whatever it needs - you decide.

Post 2: WE ARE UNPLUGGED! announces our hour. During that time, we write! The rules: no procrastinations. Please feel free to make tea or stand on your head as needed.

When the time is up, Post 3 appears with a chat box and we will get a chance to converse, or you can comment old-style to tell us what you got done! We are dying to know!

Read about a typical first time here. I make the schedule every Sunday. It will remain up in the side bar until I post the next week's schedule (feel free to make requests for particular times in the comments - I take them into serious consideration). All additions will be noted in in the side bar. Come back and check it often. (The schedule times are listed in Eastern Time Zone but the blog posts in Central - Tina's time zone. Our visitors are from all over the map.)

Please email me with questions, comments, or just to introduce yourself! tina dot laurel at gmail dot com

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Apr 15, 2010

Unpluggage begins at 12 (est)

Please set your goals in the comments! What are you going to work on?

13 comments:

  1. Oh boy. Okay, since we met last, I cut 12,000 words (4 chapter), and decided I hate the direction I've gone in my plot, so today, I'm taking things back to the last scene I liked, and figuring how to fit the rest back together.

    I have an outline, with key scenes I need to have in order to get to the end... but my outline is a little vague around the halfway point, so I need to figure out a little better.

    So my goal today: fill in my outline to get me to the end. I might not finish, but I want to at least get started.

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  2. That sounds brilliant, Marisa. I can't wait to hear how it works.

    I am also in the messy middle of my messy book. I am reading ahead because of all the connections I have to make I think are spread way out. I want to read and draw a map today. That is my plan. We'll see how much I get in!

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  3. Also, I don't know if you know already, Marisa, but I want to make the announcement that J. can't come. Boo-hoo. Because he has to work. Let's have a moment of silence for him.

    I take that back: let's make some noise for him.

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  4. Good luck Tina! I like your idea of drawing a map... I need to do that to, so I can connect my dots!

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  5. Oh boo. But hopefully he's meeting all sorts of interesting characters at work, to inspire him somehow.

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  6. I like that! And luckily for those characters, they are meeting him!

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  7. Hello all! I'm not sure what I'm going to do today. I'm going to just open up my word document, and work forward. But, first, some tea with honey--does anyone want some??

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  8. Yes, tea, please! No honey. Thanks.

    Also, I like that. The no-goal approach, just forward motion. Yay!

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  9. I can offer macaroons. Toasted coconut with just a sprinkle of kosher salt, num. And they are healthy, dried fruit and nuts in them. Perfect writerly sustenance.

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  10. T--are you sure? It's local honey. Really local. My neighbor keeps bees.

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  11. I'll definitely take some macaroons. Yum.

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  12. That is awesome! Of course I will have some!

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  13. Yay, off we go! Good luck! See you in an hour!

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