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 21, 2010

Post 3: Reconvention!

So, do tell! What happened?


A chat box will  be here the first 1/2 hour after our unplug. Please sign up (I think you  will have to begin an account with Chatroll but it only takes a  second). After our chat I will remove the chat box and post the  highlights. For posterity's sake. If all else fails, please post your  report in the comments. If there is something I can fix I will do it as  quick as I can. And if you just prefer to do it the old school way, in  comments, that is fine too.


The Chat: tinalee: I'm here!

Jul 21 2010, 7:31 AM
tinalee: Dena? Dena? Dena? Where are you?

Jul 21 2010, 7:32 AM
tinalee: Well, how did it go?

Jul 21 2010, 7:32 AM
tinalee: I mostly just worked on a blog post. But it is done. Yay.

Jul 21 2010, 7:33 AM
tinalee: I have been trying to take a break from my revision, but I saw that Janice Hardy has a post up about really cutting back on words.

Jul 21 2010, 7:33 AM
tinalee: Which is what I have to do. I have 30 thou more words that I'd like to cut down to 15

Jul 21 2010, 7:34 AM
tinalee: here I'll give you the link Tina and you can check it out.

Jul 21 2010, 7:35 AM
tinalee: http://storyflip.blogspot.com/2010/07/re-write-wednesday-to-dump-to-dump-to.html

Jul 21 2010, 7:35 AM
tinalee: Okay, my bad. It is actually about info dumping in your novel. I will go anfd read it and report back.

Jul 21 2010, 7:42 AM
tinalee: I think Janice hardy is so clear when she talks about writing and really seems to know everything. I do wonder how she learned it all. Or how she narrows it down to the brilliant things that she narrows it down to.

Jul 21 2010, 7:42 AM
tinalee: Okay, off I go. Dena is not coming.
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