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

Don't forget to sign the guestbook at the bottom of the page!


Jul 14, 2010

Post 1: Unpluggage begins at 11 am (est)

What will you be working on? Tell us in the comments.

6 comments:

  1. I'm going to try to choke out my next scene, but I'm having want-to-delete-the-last-three-chapters-I've-written issues today... so we'll see how well I do!

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  2. There are various folks around and we even have extra kids here, but I am around and I hope to get a little done and I will try to chat after.

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  3. And we're off! Any Practice Room latecomers - meet us at Post 3 in one hour for chat!

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  4. I am here, late, but I'm going to try to write!!

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  5. I'm here!! I'm just going to figure out what the crap I'm doing.

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  6. Kearsie!! Yay. You are Marisa's friend, right? The practice room just ended. All are posting's go up in the eastern time zone, so we just finished. I hope you can make it another time. I just posted the schedule here on the front page. Check it out! And let me know if you can make any other times.

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