Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Rainy Monday

Back at the WB!

Streamline and organizing the writing space...
   Spring cleaning is in the air and the WB group has been tweaking their writing space for inspiration and better space use. Lots of new things, from the creation of new / updated blogs to a complete re-org of individual creative zones. Write on!

Decafnovelist.com is MK Wisemans site...
   The above link is the NEW MK Wiseman blog site for the Bookminder series, and beyond. Go check it out and see what is happening in the Croatian fantasy realm!

On family and those beta readers within...
   On a side note, we veered into the pros and cons of having family read our work. Memberable quotes such as "Will your readers know what a 'magi' is?", to (after hours of hmmmm, ahhh, mmmm) "It's nice.", and other such anticlimactic responses. Granted, the folks we trust in our families love us and want to help without risking harm. Still, it was a very therapeutic session!

Calling up the Kites Mountain short story...
   Just a quick thanks to the WB crew this week! We did some tear-down / feedback to the intro of the story. LOTS of great suggestions and edits!!! Although the story has already been submitted to GenCon for the contest, it was a eye-opening experience for me. One of my shortcomings is reading my own words out loud. As I read, I try to fix the story for the audience at hand. So apparently self-assured tenacity is something for me to keep tweaking. Still, at the end of it all, it was kind of fun answering the 'what motivated you to write this part' and 'how would you put this part and that part together for more clarity'. Insight and puzzle solving for the reader and author. Good stuff!

Diane brought in her poems...
   Fresh off the printer comes book 2 and book 3 is in the works! Hand-stitched bindings and some wonderful wordsmithing on the inside. Unfortunately, I had to cut out early for work, and was not around for the feedback and discussion. If anyone from the group reads this blog, feel free to leave whatever I missed in the comments!

-Dave

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