[stylist] writing prompts, welcome, and facebook

[Barbara Hammel]

I'm anxieously looking forward to it!!!!   I can't seem to get motivated to 
write.  What is it the folks say about the muse?  I've been reading quite a 
bit and I enjoyed doing those prompts last year.

The problem with me and critiquing is it has to be absolutely awful for me 
to reallypoint out something.  You are such an engaging writer to me that 
the only thing I ever pick up in your stuff is the occasionally misspelled 
words.  I, myself, get comma crazy or comma shy and I don't have JAWS set to 
read all punctuation.  (It's easy to change, I guess, so I should learn to 
take advantage of it.)

I hope all of you who are going to be affected by this stormwill be safe.
Barbara




Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
-----Original Message----- 
From: Chris Kuell
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 4:25 PM
To: Stylist
Subject: [stylist] writing prompts, welcome, and facebook

Firstly, I'd like to welcome Aine. I hope your exams go well, and that you 
have a fabulous summer as we in the US are preparing for old man Winter.

Eve, my gut reaction is to politely decline your request and wish you all 
the best in attempting to breathe some much needed life into this group. 
We've tried doing this through writing prompts a number of times, and at 
best we get maybe 5% participation. For those who spend hours writing a 
piece to share with the group, it's very disheartening  when nobody reads or 
responds . Although I'm a cynic, I'm also a bit of an optimist, so I'll 
agree to give it one more try. I'll come up with a writing prompt for the 
group for November, and we'll see how it goes. I'd love to read a dozen or 
more responses, and it would be fantastic if folks would give constructive 
feedback so we can all grow in our craft. The one caveat is that I live in 
Connecticut, about 20 miles from the coast, and we are expected to get 
slammed by hurricane Sandy tomorrow. Schools have already been cancelled 
through Wednesday, and it's likely we will lose power. So, if I don't post a 
prompt on November 1, I'll get to it as soon as the power is back on.

Lastly, if the group decides to move to facebook for interactions, that's 
great, but I won't be joining in. I have a facebook account, and use it to 
promote my writing and on occasion to share things with my friends, but my 
experience of facebook is that it's primarily a time sucker, and not very 
meaningful to me.


Until next time,

chris



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