Welcome to the inaugural writing club update! This is a brand new writing club, first proposed here. I have some ideas about what I want from this club, but where we go from here is open ended.
So feel free to start new posts or spinoffs in between my monthly posts, as long as they jive with the rules in our gracious host community’s sidebar, you have my full support. :)
On to the whole point of this club! The following brave things set to text concrete goals for themselves (linked beside their names, just below). If you’d like to join their number, simply say so in the comments, along with your goal for this month. Okay, here are the stars of our show: 👏👏👏👏
Participants
- @[email protected] - June goal
- @[email protected] - June goal
- @[email protected] - June goal
- @[email protected] - June goal
You don’t have to share any of the actual material you’ve worked on unless you want to (you could even use our local Etherpad to share writing stuff - for example).
Here are some questions to start you off. I’m genuinely interested in your answers, but don’t feel you need to follow my script. This is just a prompt:
- How do you think you did on your goal(s)?
- What would you like to accomplish for our next check-in in August?
- Is there a part of your project that you’d especially like feedback on?
- Is there anything about this writing club you’d like us to do differently?
No stress if you didn’t accomplish everything you set out to (I fell short and I’m still here hehe). I would love to hear your updates no matter how things went!
I’ll share my own progress in a comment below. What I’m hoping from this step is that we treat this as part check-in, and part conversation. This is your chance to really dig into each others’ projects (and if someone has done so for you, maybe it would be nice to return the favour and take an interest in their own project? ;))
So my goal was to work on actually editing some of the scenes I’d already written for a sci-fi story. I have tons of scenes drafted out, but am a huge slacker when it comes to editing. Unfortunatly, I ended up deciding to move houses & haven’t done much writing at all this month.
I’m finally all packed though, and am basically just in waiting for closing dates in my current and future house to arrive. I’m hoping having all my distractions packed up & nothing to do will help make July a much more productive month.
I’m hoping to have my opening chapter edited, maybe write a few more scenes, and tighten up my proposed timeline to match with my outline.
& just for more information: The story centers around a protagonist who creates a way of augmenting the human mind. This opens up many new possibilities for what humans can be, but of course there are those who seek to monitize and control the technology. The story will take place over an extended period of time as humanity is radically changed by technology. Themes include the necessity of understanding and controlling the tech we use, boundries of the self, and what it means to be human.
I have another project that takes place in the same universe but instead centers around a found family of heavily modded space travellars. It’s a much more playful series focusing on queerness, counter cultural spaces, & creating meaning in a meaningless universe. I bring it up because the two stories are closely linked & I often jump between the two. The queer space story is one I daydream about more, but the augmented mind story has a stronger plot and is a more traditionally sci fi story.
Heres to hoping this month is one with lots of time spent writing the days away :)