Writing Workshop Group - TOEGTW Discussion: Please Read First Post

Book has now arrived, and we have the internet back! so, ready to go when everyone else is :)
 
Good news Chocco (hope you don't mind the shortening, please say if you do)!

According to my figuring we still have Abernovo, Kaladan (maybe), AnyaKimlin and Warren Paul waiting to receive their copies.

In the meantime, if we are going to start, as has been suggested, at part 3, then it might be worth beginning a pre-discussion kind of thing.

I'm sure some like me that have received the book already are having a quick read of those earlier parts and I thought it might be worth bringing up anything that they consider worth talking about from those bits, before we begin properly with part 3 (The Expository Paragraph).

For myself - I would be interested in how many of us have a 'commonplace book' or keep a journal (subjects from Chapter four) I have been putting off doing the former for too long and have never manged to do the latter. I have now started both (gulp!).

Also I found Chapter 8 - Beginning (in part 2 - The Essay) very interesting. There were some neat tricks for quickly grabbing the reader's attention in there that would be perfectly applicable to openings of novels.

Finally I'd recommend a read of Chapter 7 (part 1) - Drafts and Revision. There are some good tips for how to look at and what to look for when revising your own (or others') work.
 
By the way I'm wondering if we should have a third thread so the exercises have one for the submissions themselves and one for discussion of the submissions. A little like the challenge threads. And then the third thread is this one for discussion of the book content. Just seems to me the submissions thread might get a little jumbled otherwise and picking out the submissions themselves could become a little difficult.
 
:( hopefully it will be with you in the next couple of days. Otherwise you'll have to pop round here and borrow mine! ;)
 
Any movement on receipt of the book? I think I'd like to get this started fairly soon or else it's just going to fizzle out!
 
I'm still waiting for my copy to arrive. Getting a little impatient myself.

If you want to get started, I have no problem. I'll catch up or join in something in the future. I certainly wouldn't want to see this fall apart.
 
We'll give it another day or two then unless anyone objects. I think AnyaKimlin is still waiting as well. Also Warren Paul but he only ordered quite late.
 
Being only Tuesday today that would be another week. I don't have a problem with that, but I don't know how others feel. Let's see what turns up in the next couple of days.
 
How abt starting with the new month? :) or the 1st monday of april maybe...
 
OK so let's go for a Monday start.

Now the question is where do we start? I am pretty much happy to go through in any order. It has been suggested that we start at part 3 (The Expository Paragraph) work through to the end and come back to Parts 1 and 2 for any who still wish to do so.

If this seems resaonable to everyone then I would propose the first session (?) should cover chapters 12 (Basic Structure) and 14 (Paragraph Unity).

Thoughts?
 
I received my copy today. I shall get started on it this evening. Having had a quick look through, though, Chapter 12 looks good to start with.

You're all right, by the way. It does look like a dictionary.:)
 
Good news Aber!

And what a pain Anya!

By the way I noticed a typo in my post (#55) it should have read chapters 12 and 13 not 14.
 
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