Questions

- generally everyone interested!

Hey, thanks for ****?cking. I’m a young writer and I was wondering if any one would be interested in creating a sort of email group to support writing and go day-by-day during ****?h events ***? NaNoWriMo and continue with any other writing throughout the year.

How this would work:

Anyone interested, please either email me at akitylasaraleen123@hotmail.com or lunaakitylasaraleen@yahoo.com or sign up by providing a valid email address below. Whenever a new ***?rson signs up, I’ll add their name to the list and ***?nd out the on-going list of email addresses to everyone who has signed up. When you’ve written something and you’d like it critiqued or you’d like an opinion or anything, ***?nd it out to everyone on the list. (Writing will likely be ***?nt out daily during ****?h events ***? NaNoWriMo by anyone participating.) When you receive an email with the bit of writing, go through it, read it, give your opinion, any mistakes you’ve found, critique it, of(cont.)
offer advice, etcetera. Please check your email often if you’d like to participate!

Hopefully this will provide a nice little community of writers and support! Hopefully we can all keep in touch! The writers can ***?nd out their writing to a nice large group of writers, readers, or critics, and receive feedback from a nice large group of writers, readers, or critics. Other writers, readers, or critics will have a nice supply of new work coming their way through email, and should have plenty of reading material! Everyone, please be honest, or this will be quite pointless, and please try to check your email at least once a week! Also, I am sure everyone would appreciate emails ***?nt out with notices about up-coming events (like NaNoWriMo and other similar events, for example), and I think it would be nice if we could rely on others in the group for advice or answers to questions if anyone needs help. Just ***?nd an email with your question to the group, and if you can help, please answer
please answer any questions you receive. I’m sure you get the idea of how this would work. The idea is, basically, a little email group of writers, readers, and others will be created, and readers will have material to read, the writers will have feedback, the ***?rious can get a nice supply of information, and those that like to help out will have questions to answer!

I’ve never done this before and I am not sure if it will work out, ****? I’d like to try! Please let me know if you are interested or if you have any ideas! All ages, styles, genres, backgrounds, etc welcome and encouraged to join. Thank you for your ***?me.

LunaAkitylasaraleen
Lena – Jess/Jessi – Lasaraleen – Arya – Barbie – Luna Girl
Whatever else you may know me ***?
Yes, I have many nick-names, lol.

(I think I am going to try to start a Yahoo Group with this… Just let me know if you’re interested! Thanks.)
1. NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. Participants attempt to write a 50,000+ word-count novel in one month. www.nanowrimo.org for more info. I hope to start it ***? soon ***? possible, and considering a few ***?ople have already expressed interest, possibly this week!

2. I realize it has a lot of flaws, it’s just a tentative idea. / I know other groups exist, ****? I’d like to start one myself. Other groups are usually quite large, and you can’t always trust everyone in them. / Like I said, you’d have to trust everyone to be honest. I guess it’s just the idea that if you steal someone’s work, they could steal yours, so if no one does it, then no one has to worry. / “However, that is a risk you have to talk when doing anything on the internet.” Exactly. Thanks for signing up!

3. Thanks!

4. Okay, thank you!

5. Hmm… I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks. / How I think it would work is you would ***?nd writing to everyone, and then they would ***?nd they’re opinions back to you, and -
- opinions back to you, and you’d have a collection of emails with different opinions that could prove useful during the editing process and when writing other things. If someone ****?ted a ***?ll critique they should probably just ***?k one ***?rson. ? / Erm, yeah, I should have said. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND ***?NDING ANYTHING YOU ARE CONSIDERING PUBLISHING OUT TO A LARGE GROUP OF ***?OPLE. Also, yes, please do not post other’s work anywhere unless they have specifically stated that you may. Think about it: How would you feel if someone posted your work? This will just have to be another ***?me when ***?ople will have to trust others. / I think it’s a bit safer emailing to a group of ***?ople than posting on the internet – ***?rhaps not considerably, ****? slightly. ?. / Thanks. Yes, you’re right, lol. / Thanks for everything! I could use more advice like yours!

6. Yeah, I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks.

7. Thanks.
- LunaAkitylasaraleen

I creative write fairly regularly, but I don’t like sharing pieces with people I know because their opinions can seem biased. Where can I post some things and perhaps get a tidbit of critique?
- Chelsea

It’s written from the perspective of an off-world being. Does it give you a visual image? Do you want to see more of it, or should I stop wasting your time?

In the Northern Hemisphere of the third planet from a small primary, there is a long and narrow island. A female biped, species Homo Sapiens, is walking across the sand toward the ocean. She is a maker of stories, some real and others fiction based on reality.

Story-making is ofen a solitary profession and she is feeling the need for companionship. Although she is intrigued with mystery, when she is not making stories, she believe in being straightforward. This is why she looks neither to the right nor to the left, but keeps her eyes focused on the incoming tide.
Okay, Ariana, but I have to wait to see if anyone else agrees w/you.
Jim: The reason the narrator knows all this will be revealed if I decide to post the rest of the story. Thanks for your critique.
- Elaine P…is for Poetry

Hey!
I just moved to LA. I know there are a lot of writers in my area but I would like to find a small writing group in my age range, 30s. I live close to Hollywood and Highland areas.

Nothing like a good group to get critique and feedback in a group.

Any good info would be appreciated it. I would definitely call the Writers guild but they provide information on big groups or well established groups.
- Man-atarms

Hey guys, I’m just looking for an online community where users share and critique each other’s work, the only thing I’ve used so far is elfwood. Any and all genres are appreciated.
- Smokey Desperado

I’m looking for a good website to post amatuer poetry, I just wanna hear opinions from people who are interested. I know people post them on a ton of places… Just wanna find a few good ones.
- THE MAN

There are tons of Russian short stories available on the web, but I need multiple sources that critique the short story? Anyone know a popular one that’s often analyzed?
- Andy

What creativity sites (so, writing, art, music creation, acting, craft, anything to do with creativity) do you know of and like? Why do you like them? Who would you recommend them to?

I like
http://www.notebookinhand.com because it’s for all ages, covers all aspects of creativity no matter what it is, and requires a certain level of intelligence in the members- those who type like idiots do not survive. It also has *locked* sections for your writing, which means you don’t lose your first publication rights if you’re posting it up for critique. It also runs a webcomic, does stuff for charity, and has competitions. And it’s small enough that you quickly get to know the other members, and also they’re wanting to welcome you.

http://www.nanowrimo.org - very good for writers of all ages and levels of talent who need instant help- If it’s September- December. The rest of the year it’s quite quiet but still useful.

http://www.deviantart.com -post up your art and get critiques, and you can sell your art.

http://monthlymuse.boardzero.com/forum.html Just joined this one, it seems like it will be good for critiques, and it’s nice to join a brand new forum and get it going.

http://www.etsy.com - if you’ve got craft to sell. They have good forums too.
- N G

I’m currently writing a novel, but have grown too close to my work, which makes me unsure about the quality of my actual writing. I’ve asked family members to critique the first page or so to see if I’m on the right track, but I’m not sure if they’re answering honestly or if they’re sparing me.

I’m too embarrassed to ask friends, professors, etc, and I’m a little nervous about actually posting it anywhere online (what with it being easy to steal and all).

Does anybody have any ideas?
- milz034

If anyone knows of a really good poetry site where I can submit poetry and also participate in critique circles…I would like to know the name of the site. Thanks for any suggestions.
- woman’s stride