My opinion? If NaNo means a lot to you, press through. If it doesn't, ditch it and get into revisions. This, at least, has a definitive result.
As for the crit group, you've been looking for excuses to drop out since the first meeting. If it's not for you, it's not. I have recently come up against this very same dilemma--quit a group I'm pretty sure I won't click with? Or keep the writerly discourse, however lame it may be!?
Ah, sorry, this is the online workshop that's a follow-up to the workshop at Worldcon. It's through LJ, and straight read&crit. I keep losing track of it in my FList, feeling disorganised and uncertain about how deep to go. It may not be a good format for me, after the close engagement of beta-reading.
The crit group may be chugging along happily on its own now, in which case I'll wave at it from a distance.
Nein. There will be no copping out of workshop. At worst, it shall be: Here there is synopsis. Critique that, if you will.
But seriously, you can let your deadline slide on that one. Just tell your group leader that you want to hold off until you have something, and she'll be more than glad to let you hold the "next" slot until you're ready.
I don't mind hanging in as long as I don't have to feel guilty about getting to everything late and having to be reminded. It's the idea that everyone is staring reproachfully at me that throws me off. There's a reason I avoid organised sports.
Oh yeah, and somebody has to show me a way to get _quickly_ to the group 3 postings. As it stands, I have to go to my user info, then to the workshop info, then to the recent entries, then page down .... Agh. I am so LJ-illiterate.
Your notes were so good, so helpful to me, I hope you hang in there for our group so we can help you too. I am also LJ-illiterate. You can set it up to get group 3 postings sent to your email. I get it that way but can't recall how that happened. Barry can tell you.
You are too good to lose!lowly_scribeDecember 3 2009, 05:43:45 UTC
Your initial notes were good and then your later notes on my rewrite were spot on! You are quite talented at knowing exactly what to fix. The group cannot afford to lose you. Please stay.
Re: You are too good to lose!bmlgDecember 4 2009, 20:04:34 UTC
Nope, I was just slow.
Sigh.... You'll notice my later notes are teetering into line-editing. Which is what I'm actually good at, but isn't appropriate for this group. Trying to critique someone's work without doing line-level crit is, for me, like reading while standing ten feet away and peering between my fingers. Kissing through a screen door. Other metaphors for disengagement.
Re: You are too good to lose!lowly_scribeDecember 5 2009, 08:26:38 UTC
I totally agree.
Even though they say not to line-edit, I think the reasoning was that we might scare away writers with extensive notes. If someone has major structural or conceptual problems with their piece, then it can be overwhelming to see a long list of notes. Plus, if they're going to dump a whole chapter, then no sense making them clean up every sentence.
But I am really grateful for your line edits. I also loved your chapters.
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As for the crit group, you've been looking for excuses to drop out since the first meeting. If it's not for you, it's not. I have recently come up against this very same dilemma--quit a group I'm pretty sure I won't click with? Or keep the writerly discourse, however lame it may be!?
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The crit group may be chugging along happily on its own now, in which case I'll wave at it from a distance.
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Ah, clarity. :)
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But seriously, you can let your deadline slide on that one. Just tell your group leader that you want to hold off until you have something, and she'll be more than glad to let you hold the "next" slot until you're ready.
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Did you move your posting date?
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Sigh.... You'll notice my later notes are teetering into line-editing. Which is what I'm actually good at, but isn't appropriate for this group.
Trying to critique someone's work without doing line-level crit is, for me, like reading while standing ten feet away and peering between my fingers. Kissing through a screen door. Other metaphors for disengagement.
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Even though they say not to line-edit, I think the reasoning was that we might scare away writers with extensive notes. If someone has major structural or conceptual problems with their piece, then it can be overwhelming to see a long list of notes. Plus, if they're going to dump a whole chapter, then no sense making them clean up every sentence.
But I am really grateful for your line edits. I also loved your chapters.
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