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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May 2, 2010
Post 1: Unpluggage Begins at 11 PM eastern.
What will you be working on? Tell us in the comments.
Well, I'm wondering if it will fit into a later scene... but it just doesn't feel right where I've placed it. As for the deleting... I've already deleted nearly 50k with this book, so another few thousand doesn't seem like a big deal anymore. Haha, that sounds so sad. But closer to my one mil!
Deleting sounds so final. But not feeling right, that is something I can understand. Maybe you just don't write in a linear fashion?
Yes, Elana has a cool project! She organized a ton of book reviews for tomorrow. There's a round robin of posts going up tomorrow at 8 est. I better get cracking!
So.... everything I wrote last week, I deleted... and now I'm trying again with a new scene to finish off my Chapter 12.
ReplyDeleteWhat?? Tell me how you are feeling, Marisa? Why did you delete?
ReplyDeleteI have to write my blog post for tomorrow--Elana's spread the awesome hug an author post. And I have some notes to work on from this weekend.
Well, I'm wondering if it will fit into a later scene... but it just doesn't feel right where I've placed it. As for the deleting... I've already deleted nearly 50k with this book, so another few thousand doesn't seem like a big deal anymore. Haha, that sounds so sad. But closer to my one mil!
ReplyDeleteHug an author? sounds awesome... I'm intrigued!
Deleting sounds so final. But not feeling right, that is something I can understand. Maybe you just don't write in a linear fashion?
ReplyDeleteYes, Elana has a cool project! She organized a ton of book reviews for tomorrow. There's a round robin of posts going up tomorrow at 8 est. I better get cracking!
I'm in and I'm writing my author blog post too. Nothing like waiting til the last minute! :)
ReplyDeleteHoly cow, Marisa! You've deleted almost 50K?! I can't even imagine!!
Kelly- so nice to know I am not alone!!!
ReplyDeleteWhoops! Lost track of myself there!~And we are off!
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