Hey, I'm working on some large-scale writing projects. Anyone else? I thought we might be able to make a little writer's group.
I wrote a tv pilot that I couldn’t sell a few years ago and now I’m cultivating a fiction about the Pleistocene Park Russian/world scientists are trying to create in Siberia. What’s gud?
I haven’t fully committed to giving up my free time at night. For example, I haven’t written a word on it for 10 days. a writing group would at least make me type words to have a deadline each month
Scifi/horror. Also started fleshing out an outline for a horror/gangster script called Don’t Say A Bad Word about My Mother. This is all to procrastinate from a non-fiction doc and fiction script about the disparity between caucasians and illegal Central Americans in the service industry that I started working on in the fall. What are you working on? What is a writer’s group?
I'm working on a few projects. A short novel set in rural Arkansas. Cosmic horror, think Rosemary's Baby with a twist. A post-apocalyptic frozen hellworld. Also an epic fantasy world. No storylines, just the bones. Nonfiction wise, some work projects including one on branding places (think small towns) and how economic development groups, town councils, etc can help entrepreneurs open up businesses in towns that are affordable but seem to be dried up economically. Usually it's a place to get friendly reads and feedback as well as create goals for accountability. Might also just be ideas and feedback.
Well I’ve watched a lot of fantasy, scifi, and horror between the hours of 12am-5am so always happy to talk ideas there. Most intrigued by the non-fic though. It’s always fascinating, or I guess infuriating, to me to read about how little, unassuming laws and ordinances made rich/old people with an agenda can shape communities.
Yes, please. Have been kicking around doing a placemaking non-profit with the idea of funding this very thing
I do a lot of work in economically distressed counties so I would love to see what y’all put together.
Everyone I've talked to about the project is interested, which makes me excited. Need to keep cranking.
The only thing I’m writing is my dissertation. It’s a qualitative study if any of you are well-versed in that methodology.
Have done some editing and writing for technical articles over the years, mostly for freelance work, but have no real interest in doing it long-term. Have toyed with putting together a novel for years and have kicked around a number of ideas. If nothing else, I'd be interested in doing some reading editing on things you guys are working on.
I'm doing a phenomenological study on the opinions of faculty development for technical college faculty that start teaching directly from industry. It may turn into a mixed method, but I doubt it.
I'm writing a book about a guy who dies and goes to heaven, but when he gets to heaven he discovers that heaven has like a market economy and he has to get a heaven job so he can get a heaven apartment, and pay heaven bills, it's just forever now, and all your ancestors and pets are there. And so like ultimately the main character realizes that like death is a form of relief, and like he toiled away his entire life just to toil away forever after he died the same way. So he seeks out God to ask "hey, so...wtf?" But then discovers that God is literally just a computer program designed to beta test various AI programs, and the first test they run is existence within a capitalist society with the promise of death at the end, and then the AI is shifted to the same existence but without death, and so the protagonist discovers that he's basically just a software file that has been shifted to a different server. And so the dude is like, well, what's the third test? And Godware is like "well its the same thing again, except you know that God and Death aren't real. It's just static, self-contained permanence, and each simulation you run through is designed to destroy whatever helped motivate you in the previous simulation, until you eventually become completely self-reliant and nihilistic." and then the protagonist says"Okay, then what happens?" and Godware says "Well, then your code will be copied and loaded onto all sorts of basic devices in order to make them smart devices. We mainly deal in smart e readers, which quickly read and summarize any large texts or even novels, but right now our software isn't very good at discerning which details to include and which ones to gloss over. Our products literally sometimes produce summaries that are longer than the original text." So then the protagonist says "Do I have any say in this?" and Godware is like "I don't even have a say in this" And then the protagonist experiences birth into/upload onto the third server where nobody has any sex organs.
You're going to brought up on charges of attempted manslaughter by the time the editor makes it through the first chapter.
Anybody still writing? I actually came in here to see if anyone had dabbled in poetry, but now I’m curious about some of these projects.
My writing projects have died. Have been too busy with other projects during pandemic. Depressing to see the google doc file just sitting there.
Finished my novel, it's getting beta reads now. Working on the nonfic still. Hoping to start another novel next month.
Lost interest, mostly because I’m a fucking awful writer. I still have all the ideas banging around up there including a new story setting and characters, but I’m bad at writing. I’d rather read other people’s writing right now.
All first drafts are awful. Get the juices flowing. Thing that helped me the most was morning pages from Julia Cameron
My writing experience is entirely in academia, marketing, and PR. But when it comes to professional writing, I am a pretty good editor for grammatical purposes if you need/want any help with that.
I have considered starting up my own wholesome comic for fun because I like the positivity and wholesomeness. I haven't gotten past the first animal drawing. Everything I've drawn has been too similar to other comics so I'm stumped at the moment.
Starting my dissertation soon and need a prospectus before the end of the summer, so may be popping into this thread in the near future
we have shared graduate student offices we can use, but i prefer to work at home or in a public setting (coffeeshops for instance)