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Hey Lorna,
I bet you are writing and you don't even realize that you are writing. Even when you are just pondering over your story ideas, that counts as writing :]
Try jotting down a paragraph a day. If you do not have time for that, try a sentence. Even if you have to "hand write" it.
Writing is like breathing...a writer can't live without it :]
You don't have to leave just because you're not writing. We're more of the encouraging type, not the taskminders. :)Hope it gets better soon...
*Waves pom-poms*
You can do it!
Haha. We won't look down on you for taking a break. I've been not writing for about a month, they won't get super angry at you. =)
Urgh, just not happening at the moment. The mood hasn't struck, so I've written nothing in about 3 weeks.
I might leave and maybe rejoin when I'm writing again.
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Or just post here and the first person to see it will probably be able to answer your questions. :) It's faster that way.
Hey Lorna!Cool name, by the way.
If you need any help or have any questions, just let me know, okay? Or Kenzie/Roni/Dee are all great to ask, since they're the mods. :)
Welcome Lorna,
Please create a cubical in the H-M Writers section.
We look forward to your postings :]
Have a great August.
Dee Marie
Hi. Just joined. Have no idea how the group works yet, but I will read through and educate myself :)
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Yep. Books about writing are great. :D Just don't add random books... unless you think that they are really good enough that everybody should read them. :)
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Feel free to add books to the bookshelf, there's no harm in spreading the word about great books. :D
Is it okay to post books on the group bookshelf, specifically books about writing? I'd love to see what other folks are reading to help them with their writing and craft. Thanks!
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Yeah, as long as it is in your own folder. I mean, it's no different than posting links to writing that is on goodreads.
Can you post links to like a blog in your own folder? If you are posting your updated writing there?
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Yes, I call them bulletin boards too! If you have any other questions, Rhiannon, feel free to ask!
Go this groups' home. See the little bar that says "discussion board"? Click the button that says "new" to the right of the words "discussion board." Type whatever you want to type, then select the folder it should go in. :D
Hey, So just joined goodreads a few months ago and am totally clueless as to how to use it. How do i make a folder to put my updates in? Cool idea by the way, I am so sick of writer's block and my own damn excuses!
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Aren't those the thingies on the sides of the roads that advertise stuff, though?
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Sorry. *grins*
Thanks! I always knew them as Cork Boards, so a Tack Board....I was like WHOA! Something new and cooler than cork. Guess not. ROFL
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UM-A tack board is just a cork board. I never knew the "real" name of it when I was younger, so I called it a tack board because you stick things up on it with tacks/pins.
They look like this:
Teresa wrote: "Ps. I haven't introduced myself, but I'm a new arrival here! I love the idea of a daily challenge and hopefully a year from now I will be amazed at what I have accomplished! I am already very impressed with what I have seen here.."
Thank you for the suggestion and welcome! It's great to meet you. This really is a great spot.
Uniquely Moi wrote: "Wendy wrote: "What I like about the clipboards is that it can be rearraged so easy, it allows you to see it all, and you can still flip through the pages on the clips without unclipping them. I th..."I find the top of doors handy when I don't want holes in the walls. Something hung from a door could work maybe, or even something gently fastened to the door itself. It sounds like a fun project anyway, I hope you find your ideal solution! :)
Ps. I haven't introduced myself, but I'm a new arrival here! I love the idea of a daily challenge and hopefully a year from now I will be amazed at what I have accomplished! I am already very impressed with what I have seen here!
Wendy wrote: "What I like about the clipboards is that it can be rearraged so easy, it allows you to see it all, and you can still flip through the pages on the clips without unclipping them. I think of it as b..."
This is the ideal solution, but I'm trying to avoid holes in the walls and because of limited mobility, sometimes I'm in the bedroom, sometimes the living room. I would love something on rollers.
What I like about the clipboards is that it can be rearraged so easy, it allows you to see it all, and you can still flip through the pages on the clips without unclipping them. I think of it as being my brain, splattered against the wall for all the world to see.
Yes, I get it, Wendy. Great idea.
What is a tack board, Kenzie? Is it special material or something?
What I did tonight was take several sheets of colored printer paper and labeled each page with the chapter name or working title with brief description of a certain section. I put them in order of how they will occur in the book, with blank pages in between the labeled ones.
Then, my daughter used painters tape and taped them, in order and with the blank pages in between sections as well, on my wall in the bedroom.
I hope THAT made sense.
That is a temporary fix, but I had to do something otherwise, I would still be thinking about what to do 3 weeks from now.
Thanks again for all the advice!
Moi- I like Kenzie's idea of replacing the papers with something of a more mobile nature.
If you had a peg board and labeled each card with the title of each of your pieces, then you could look at it in order and rearrange things however seems best to you. Once you get the titles arranged, you could read through them and see what peices are needed to "join it" all together.
Just a thought.
One thing that I have done before when I needed to see piles of paper all over is this:
Start with a long piece of wood (like a 1x2, skinny and flat).
Then measure out how many clip boards you can lay on it (metal part resting on the board, the end extending off the board) I think I fit 8 clip boards on mine.
THen mark where the holes are for the clipboards with a pencil on the wood. (through the little hole at the top of the clipboard)
Then take screws and put a screw in every pencil mark (only half way so it sticks out enough to hang a clipboard from)
Then you screw the long board horizontally to the wall (with only 2 screws that go into studs, one towards either end)
Then when you put the clipboards back on, you now have 8 piles on your wall with only 2 holes in the wall itself.
I hope that made sense, but I have 2 of these boards on a wall, one over the other, so I can have 16 "piles" up where I can see them and keep it all out of the way while still being in plain view.
Do you get it?
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That works, too, but then you'd have to find a way to put twine up. :)
Thank you, Kenzie! I also considered stringing twine along the wall and using heavy duty paper clips to hold things in place.
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For me I bought a couple packets of sticky notes. I scribble down ideas on them and post them up on my wall in a sort-of time line. That way I can re-arrange things and trash ideas that don't work. I found that this way works for me.You could always buy a tackboard--I also have one of those--to stick your ideas up on.
I'd say no to the dry erase idea, just because the longer you leave stuff up there the harder it is to clean it off. And once you run out of space that's it, you'd have to buy another board or erase the ideas you already have up.
After hashing things over in my mind, which I spend way too much time doing, I've come up with a plan. What I need are suggestions for how to best implement said plan.
My story has been coming to me in bits and pieces of emotional scenes and I've really reached the point, having about 20+ such scenes either printed out totally or in the near stages of completion, that I need to come up with a "storyboard" so that I can lay out what I have finished and see where I need to add the filler to get the characters to those already finished points.
I considered using the empty wall in my bedroom, but I don't want to put thumbtacks in the walls. The dining table is too small, so, I thought about getting one fo those rolling dry erase boards.
And as silly as this question may sound to you seasoned writers, I'm dead serious.
Can anyone tell me how you make your storyboard work? It can not be on the computer. I need to do this part "hands on."
I still think you're better. I would use your picture, but other people have it (nothing wrong with that), and I couldn't find one that I liked (for some reason there are different versions).YOU ARE COOL SELLA!!
