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<blockquote data-quote="Voneth" data-source="post: 223675" data-attributes="member: 1016"><p>I joined a writers club and a poetry night.</p><p></p><p>I never did genre stuff for poetry night, but I was very flattered by the praise I got.</p><p></p><p>I did okay at the club until they had a funky exercise. They picked nouns out of a had and I got Atlantis and book. So I wrote up a short story that would become my modern science fantasy book I now have on my hard drive. The club never said the story was bad.</p><p></p><p>But they did say I was "wasting" my time on the genre stuff. They even had another exercise where people where to NOT do their usual thing. I wrote a creative piece about a bridesgroom who contenplates his ex g/f on his honeymoon night. They loved it. Funny enough, I didn't any of them write about "those ray guns and wizards." So I guess I am the only one who stuck to the rules. Funny that.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.hatrack.com" target="_blank">www.hatrack.com</a> has a free writers club set up. It was okay, I had to go through it twice to find enough genre writers to work with. Then they all lost interest after 9/11. Even in a writer's club site offered by a sci fi writer, I still found a lot of people there who the non-genre type and wondered what was up with us SF/F types. Even had a couple of poets too. Very eccletic mix. Another good part was that again, I got some praise for the good parts and some direction for my weaknesses.</p><p></p><p>Swoopers and Plodders, eh?</p><p></p><p>The worst is a Swooper who has no regard for his reader. It embarasses me to remember that I was a naive, arrogant, ignorant Swooper who thought the world should recongize my creativity, not my flaws. The really bad part was that I was 23 at the time. </p><p>*ouch!!*</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voneth, post: 223675, member: 1016"] I joined a writers club and a poetry night. I never did genre stuff for poetry night, but I was very flattered by the praise I got. I did okay at the club until they had a funky exercise. They picked nouns out of a had and I got Atlantis and book. So I wrote up a short story that would become my modern science fantasy book I now have on my hard drive. The club never said the story was bad. But they did say I was "wasting" my time on the genre stuff. They even had another exercise where people where to NOT do their usual thing. I wrote a creative piece about a bridesgroom who contenplates his ex g/f on his honeymoon night. They loved it. Funny enough, I didn't any of them write about "those ray guns and wizards." So I guess I am the only one who stuck to the rules. Funny that. [url]www.hatrack.com[/url] has a free writers club set up. It was okay, I had to go through it twice to find enough genre writers to work with. Then they all lost interest after 9/11. Even in a writer's club site offered by a sci fi writer, I still found a lot of people there who the non-genre type and wondered what was up with us SF/F types. Even had a couple of poets too. Very eccletic mix. Another good part was that again, I got some praise for the good parts and some direction for my weaknesses. Swoopers and Plodders, eh? The worst is a Swooper who has no regard for his reader. It embarasses me to remember that I was a naive, arrogant, ignorant Swooper who thought the world should recongize my creativity, not my flaws. The really bad part was that I was 23 at the time. *ouch!!* [/QUOTE]
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