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Practicing the pivot & summer semester writing class, week 1!
🕑 Added 2023-07-05 14:49:47 +0000 UTCHI FRIENDS.
Hope the start of your July / Camp NaNoWriMo / we're-halfway-through-the-year-freakout is going well!
First, I wanted to share Week 1 of my Summer Semester Writing Experiment! (I will have a different thumbnail when it goes live, hopefully in a day or two.)
My plan is to continue making these weekly vlogs for y'all (and for me, as accountability of sorts) but ONLY posting them here! I'll probably do a wrap-up or "lessons learned" publicly, but for the next nine weeks, I'll just stash them on Patreon. That means the editing may not be quuuiiiiitteee as snippy, but otherwise it should all be the same! :)
Second, I wanted to share that since the poll results were SO close:
I'll be doing them both! Starting TODAY I'll be recording my drafting hours in A Closet Full of Cauldrons. I'm excited to see how long it takes me to hit 100 hours and just how many words I'll have written!
Third, and the reason for the title on this post, is that I STILL have not finished my "short story completed exclusively on stream." Last time I was CONVINCED would be the final stream I needed, but alas....
Becca (and everyone in chat, lol) told me that it was okay to pivot, so that's what I did.
And that pivot has brought me HERE. To hopefully-maybe-fingers-crossed the FINAL stream of this never-ending experiment lolol. I'm on the line edits of this strange, not-quite fairy tale, and hey, maybe 5th stream's the charm?
Saturday, July 8th at 2:00pm CDT, I hope to see y'all there!
Thanks y'all and happy writing!
Comments
moonlocke
If you're looking for inspo on lady pirates, my faves are in Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch. It's a fun heist book -- perhaps my fave book of all time?? Thanks for sharing what went into your summer semester -- love the concept, thinking of trying it.
Victoria
I just joined here on patreon so I didn't put any suggestions about this earlier, but I find this really interesting. I started to do a similar thing months ago, but I looked up class syllabus (syllabuses?) for a bunch of different college classes. I wanted to do like "Dystopian Literature" or "Harlem Renaissance" I haven't done it, because of everything else going on in my life but I would still love to. I was thinking of reading some fiction, some nonfiction (like commentaries, and history of the time period the books were written in) and writing some fiction in response to them. What you did seems a little different, because it focuses more on creating instead of just reading/learning information. When I do get to making up my assignments I should probably focus more on writing my own creative stuff compared to solely taking in information. There's probably a balance there. (Sorry for such a long comment, but I just find this fascinating.)
