Green Room - Week 0 - Day 2

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

The deadline is coming up in slightly less time than it will take for the internet to, once again, turn on the Onion! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/649689.html So make sure you claim someone, and write their introduction!

I know that some people love intersections (working with someone else) and some hate them. But this isn’t a traditional intersection. It’s literally you writing something completely on your own. It just so happens that it is about someone else. (and given how many times your work is about “someone else”, it’s really not all that different) You don’t have to even contact the person, if you really don’t want to – just claim someone, who hasn’t already been claimed, and write something about them!

I know the bigger issue though isn’t about the specific topic. It’s about being an introvert, or just being uncomfortable in general meeting new people.

Believe me, I know the world of the introvert. In real life, I’m much more of one – and my girlfriend makes me look like an extrovert working on commission! In the last two years, I’ve been forced outside of my comfort zone as a result!

But I also know what social interaction can do for your writing. Not just in the realm of publishing, where it’s pretty much a necessity, but just in terms of getting and receiving the constructive criticism people need to get better. Heck, reaching out and working with someone is a built-in audience, and I don’t think there is anyone who would sign up for something like this and *not* want an audience! :D

The Green Room is a great way for you to get your metaphorical feet wet, by joining into conversations at your own pace. Most of the people don’t bite…. Um… OK… they do. Almost all of the people here bite. But many of them are on meds, so they are getting better!! Um… ok… a few of them remember to take those meds… ;)

It’s also a good excuse to grab someone you already know, and force them to sign up! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/648417.html Sign Ups are still open for the next few days, so I would go get them now! Blindside them when they aren’t paying attention, and when they wake up, they will be one of us!!

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Happy Birthday to porn_this_way! If you asked me, a few years ago, if I would ever say those particular words in a Green Room, I would have said “No”, but hey, that’s her name!

Comments

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

Happy b-day porn_this_way! Very clever of you to avoid the birthday curse by having your birthday in Week 0. Very unclever of you to allow ME to write your intro (which I'll be working on today). bwahahahahahaha!


Yesterday I wasted way too many hours reading the last of the Sookie Stackhouse series. The book was HORRIBLE. Seriously badly written. I'm not kidding, there are some Idol peeps in here that need to get busy getting published because Charlaine Harris just abdicated her place among the authors worth paying money for. /rant

[sweeny-todd.livejournal.com]

I was just talking to my sister about that book tonight! She said some of the Internet comments/reviews have been pretty full on.

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

The overall customer rating on Amazon right now is 2 stars.

A lot of people are tantruming about who she ends up with. (no spoilers here). For me it's not that. It's just really poorly written. I wrote a review for Audible today, and I said I honestly don't believe Charlaine Harris wrote the book. I think either she supervised another writer (who needed a stronger editing hand) or she did write it, and it's just an early draft that needed a lot more work and she either doesn't care anymore or had too many commitments to put in the work.

[tru2myart.livejournal.com]

I've felt like the Sookie Stackhouse books have been getting progressivly worse since Hurricane Katrina. I'm not sure if the devastation of her setting just really affected her writing or if they were already on the fast track to being bad soft porn but they've just grown icky.

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

I think when she drifted away from vampires and toward fairies she lost something. The last couple of books haven't been great, although the last one was markedly better than the one before. Even at that, the story drift was the problem. This is bad *writing* Like, literally, bad. writing.

She even departs from the first person narrator voice in this book, which she has never done before, except for a tag on one short story. It's like she decided it was just too hard or too much trouble to figure out how to tell the story from Sookie's perspective, which she has done twelve other times, and she just threw her hands in the air and said, "Whatever!"

[tru2myart.livejournal.com]

Oh that's really a shame, I was a big fan. I don't think I even want to chance this last book.

Did you ever read any Laurell Kaye Hamilton? I feel like she did exactly the same thing with her Anita Blake series. I'm probably going to have a lot of fans want to kill me for saying that but seriously, her books just became really bad writing after awhile and I was extremely disappointed.

This is why I worry about writing any kind of series. I'd be afraid to be one of those authors who doesn't know when I need to end it.

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

I haven't read the Hamilton series.

I actually liked the way the last book ended, and if I'd known how bad this book would be I'd have just imagined that the end of the series.

[whipchick.livejournal.com]

Agreed! I read one early one of Hamilton's I liked a lot, then picked up a then-recent one and was all...oh. Now it's porn. Just porn.

[tatdatcm.livejournal.com]

The introduction of the fairies was where I lost interest. Not necessarily because of the fairies, but because it was just getting...I don't know, tired? Predictable?

[porn-this-way.livejournal.com]

Pffffft, I have utmost faith that you'll slander me well!

[ashgaelsonaria.livejournal.com]

It is only slander if it is not true.