Group Dynamics

Gibbs is often in the habit of linking to journal articles he's enjoyed in the past week, or he thinks are useful, so turn around is fair play. Here he has outlined some ideas about writing group etiquette, based on a visit J. Kathleen Cheney took to a recent local chapter's RWA meeting.

I think in any new group there may be a tendency to stick with what you know, but if you are interested in attracting new members, what Jon suggests makes a lot of sense. Over on his blog, he's having a nice discussion about it. Check it out.

A couple more messages. Today looks spammy!

Catherine

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Bone Shop

Word is spreading through the internet of another writer who is offering a serialized novel and hopes for some support. Tim Pratt will be publishing chapters of Bone Shop, a prequel novella about his character Marla Mason.

Tim explains what's happening in this post. I am not fond of seeing anyone's circumstances alter, but I begin to wonder if this current economic crunch is beginning a resurgence in serial fiction.

Mondays may become serial Mondays.

Catherine

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Delays and Patience

You may have noticed from the Publications page that Hulk Hercules: Professional Wrestler has been pushed back to January, 2010. That's okay. I will bide my time.

There are some very good reasons. Cat's Curious editor Sonya Sipes thinks we can do a better publicity campaign for it if we have more time to play with. I can handle positive publicity.

I have pretty much determined to be easy-going in my writing life. (Alternately, I almost busted a sprocket in my day job life last week, so perhaps I should apply this lesson more broadly.) If I had any good advice to give a new writer going in, it would now be this: expect wait times. Take the longest wait time you can imagine, and cube it. That's your minimal wait time for any project.

This isn't a complaining piece. It's a cultural piece. It just took me a while to understand this piece of the culture. Mind you, I do find it frustrating sometimes, but you'll be better prepared than me, because you've read this and other commentaries like it.

Let's take a look at some time frames.

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Chapter 3 Done

I'm singing the chapter 3 is done song. I cut a scene for cliff hanger purposes.

I really need to think about which parts of this I want to read at Convergence. It's a toss up between introducing our villain or our hero. The spooky stuff at the beginning pulls you in, but the troll stuff is fun and likable.

What do you think? Spooky or likable?

Word Count for part one:

11565 / 45000 words. 26% done!

Scene Count:

14 / 53 words. 26% done!

Will I get to start next week's chapter tomorrow? Yeah, pretty much. No suspense there.

Catherine

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