The Re-Write

[justin_pilon]

Had the night off tonight (students are in exams), which means I had plenty of time to write. Remember that old story I opened up a while back that was so encouraging because it sucked so bad and basically showed how far I'd come? Well, I've decided to give that story a complete overhaul. I want to see if, by using some stuff I've picked up in the

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[mindseas]

I'll join in if you decide to do a book club.

[justin_pilon]

Cool! I'll see if I can get nough people. So far there's four. I saw you're going to Aussiecon, too. That's pretty neat!

[musingaloud]

So how was that workshop? You can email me if you'd rather not post it.

[justin_pilon]

It's great! I came away with quite a bit from it I think. The level one was mostly stuff I knew, but because it was my first writing class I thought it was good to hear the basics over again as a refresher. Also found the character section to be useful as it is an area I struggle with. I finished the 2nd class of the Level Two courses this week. I'd recommend taking Level Two. A lot of useful tools writers can use, I think. Overall good and affordable, though in your case (I think you took another workshop, right?) I'd be concerned about overlap. Email me if you have any questions about it. :-)

[xanthalanari]

I'd certainly consider a book club.

[justin_pilon]

Awesome. That's five. Now I just gotta think how to organize all this. I guess we could have a yahoo group where we could post discussion questions.

[sacredmime]

Oh cool, good luck with the story re-write--sounds like a fun experiment. :)

With the book club, one idea might be to work from a pre-existing list like Hugo or World Fantasy award winners.

Or maybe Oprah's Book Cult (kidding!) :D