Idea for New Community

[elyxer]

As you all know, I've been working with a couple of friends attempting to improve my writing. While I love QaF, Brian and Justin, the main reason I write is because I love it. I also enjoy learning and improving, which I believe is a main factor in everyone's journey. So, I started thinking that maybe other authors would enjoy sharing ideas and learning from one another in a safe environment. I know how busy everyone is and this wouldn't be a community expecting you to write stories or anything. Each week we would put up a problem or issue that we all share in writing, and then everyone could comment with ideas and a short example. Of course, you could discuss the issue as much as you want as long as you remember that this is a learning experience and not a forum for openly flaming. I think I've proven that a community can be flame free while having many diverse opinions, types of fiction, and ideas...qaf_cordial is a perfect example. I'd like to know if this is something that you guys would be interested in giving a try. It will only work if you're willing to participate both with ideas and constructive criticisms.

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Comments

[elyxer.livejournal.com]

Hey Jan! I had no idea you'd started a community, but I did join. I'm going to spend some time catching up on all that I've missed...gee I miss out on a lot. *sighs* I have actually already started reading the posts and you've got some wonderful information.

I may not have been clear in what I wanted to do, so I'll probably make another post. I was thinking more of a writing workshop. I learn more from doing than discussing, if you know what I mean. I was looking at putting up writing assignments...nothing too taxing just a few sentences...and then everyone could comment and give examples to help each individual writer. I haven't gotten things completely set up yet, but you can go check out the profile page to give you an idea. writing_studio

Thanks for telling me about your community and if you don't mind, I'd love to put a link to your community on this one. I figure you can never have too many resources. I fully plan to rec your community when I redo my post. *grins*
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[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

It sounds like your going to actually develop this as a community that would be a practicum/writing workshop/tutorial on specific passages.

I think that's a lovely idea and will certainly work side by side with shared_wisdom.

Thank you for the link and I saw that you joined the community.

Is your profile page up?

[elyxer.livejournal.com]

Yes, but it's still a work in progress. I took a banner from shared_wisdom's profile page to use as a link. I didn't see who made it, so if you could tell me, I'd give proper credit. You can see the banner on writing_studio's profile or in my affiliate post. I've been researching some things to do in the community, and it's amazing how many things I've forgotten about grammar. I think both communities could work together. As a matter of fact, I could use whatever topic you guys are discussing as the topic for the practice exercises.
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[jans-intentions.livejournal.com]

We chose to affliate ourselves (it's sort of permanent linking) with tamingthemuse because while they service writers as we do, it wasn't redundant since we do different things, so yeah, please get set up and we'll review this. If your community is for writing workshops, we are not doing that. Linking can always be mutually advantageous.

Your user page looks really good and you set that up very fast! Thank you for the link.

I'm glad you joined SW. I hope you find things there you enjoy. We would love your participation.

[elyxer.livejournal.com]

I am not sure what we'll end up doing on the profile. This is still a work in progress. I hope you don't mind, but as I commented to shadow, I took a poster off your profile page and would like to know who made it so I can give credit. I put it on my affiliate list and on the new community. I can remove it if this is a problem.

I'm still trying to catch up on what I missed, but I will participate as much as possible. As I was researching for topics for exercises for the new community, I realized just how much I'd forgotten about grammar. I think the information your community provides will be a great resource to use in the writing exercises. I look forward to working with you.
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[jans-intentions.livejournal.com]

Well, there is no rush on the affiliation. We can see how it goes after you get set up.

The banner is by sanami276, who designed our community. Thank you on her behalf, credit is always nice.

Grammar is a really big topic, I agree. I'm glad you have found some things there that you think will prove useful. That is why we created it.

[elyxer.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Credit has been given. *grins*
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