And Having Writ, Moves On

[akirlu]

Clearly the thing about writing is that I must do it for the sake of the writing, for living in the moment with whatever world and characters I'm creating. I must write for my own amusement. I cannot be driven to write for the sake of anyone but myself.

Because, honest to God, the delay on getting comments back on a fracking weekly-cycle writing group is making me nuts. I'm done writing my story. Yes! Yes! Yes! Now! Now! Now! GIVE. ME. FEEDBACK!!!! I posted the most recent story a bit before midnight last night, and went to bed. Too wired with the writing process to sleep, I read for a couple of hours. Then, I actually got up at 2:00 in the morning to check my computer, in hopes that someone had commented. This is insane. Writers are all mad.

Which is not to say I won't eventually begin polishing things and hunting up markets for them and sending off my little lambs for slaughter. When there's enough of a backlog, I will. But clearly I need to send things off and forget them. Because waiting around for editorial, or god forbid reader, response, would just kill me.

So here's me, getting back to the Pied Piper.

Comments

[urlgirl.livejournal.com]

Is there any chance your group might have room for one more (perennial beginner)? I'm looking for a good online group, but I dislike getting this personal with people I don't know, or about whom I know nothing.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Oh, I suspect there's a good chance there might be room. athenais has been talking about doing a bit of recruiting to build the group a bit and I can certainly vouch for your ability to string words in a line, should that be needed. :) I understand that there may be something not quite working with the LJ-software for directly requesting membership in deathless_pose, so your best bet will probably be to send e-mail directly to athenais @ livejournal.com and request her to send you an invite. And feel free to say I sent you.

[urlgirl.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! I've made the usual community join request, and I've also e-mailed her separately. :-)

[athenais.livejournal.com]

It worked. You're in. You buy the next round. Mine's a pint of bitter.