write_dammit - Profile (original) (raw)

on 29 July 2004 (#3990435)

Writers Writing About Not Writing

This is a community for people who think, claim, and hope to be writers but don't seem able to actually do any writing per se.

Too many people I know are writers, good writers, who never write because they're caught up in things like their own resonance. This community is for people who know they have the skills but are too busy beating themselves up to get anything done.

When you join, please post a brief introduction under an lj-cut. Mark the introduction "a brief intro". Tell us:

a) how long you've been writing

b) when and how your writer's block started

c) what you need help with in your work and what you're good at

d) why you feel you're blocked, and what you've tried to do about it.

PLEASE ANSWER ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS.

Your mod gets pissed when people don't read the rules. While I'm normally a fairly easygoing person, I set things up the way they are to keep us on topic and focussed on the goal of WRITING MORE, not to be a power-hungry cunt.

After this post, feel free to post whatever you like as long as it abides by the rules below, and there are some rules...

1. The most important rule, the golden rule, is that SPELLING COUNTS. If you can't spell or use grammar properly, maybe you have bigger obstacles than writer's block standing between you and literary greatness. But mostly, I just hate reading poorly spelled posts. It's my community...use the spellchecker. Comments are exempt from this rule; we all typo and we all fuck up sometimes. But if you are submitting work (or a rant), please bother to spellcheck it first.

2. Submitting work here is okay, but this is NOT a forum for instant-crit. If you want to submit work, please:

i) Put it behind an lj-cut marked "work"

ii) Try to make it relevant to the topic at hand; if you're just starting work again after a
dry period or if you're trying to work your way through a piece, this would be acceptable for posting. If you're just submitting for criticism and cross-posting to every writing community on LJ, this would NOt be acceptable. Posts of work with no subtext introduction will be deleted.

iii) Have some courtesy for length; most people don't have time to read a huge 2,500 word post on their lunch break or while reading LJ. Shorter submissions generally get read more often.

3. Please feel free to whine. Writer's block is annoying, stressful and in some cases racked with malaise in general. It's okay to post about that. However, please also make sure to post suggestions, encouragement, or when necessary, discouragement in response to the posts of others. A community is not a community if no one talks to each other. The idea here is that we can all HELP each other get over a temporary block (or discover the reasons for a longer one.) Flaming is okay. Aggression brings out the best in some of us.

Post. Post often. Posting is a form of writing, and having an Lj is often the only writing some of us are doing.

Your maintainer is clap_hands. If you have any questions, suggestions or criticism, please address it to her via this community.

JUST WRITE, DAMMIT!

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