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Tell us about your experience with hd_writers!

♥ What do you like? What have you learned? Was their an article or discussion that you found particularly helpful? Have you made any fabulous friends or found your perfect writing partner? What are your favorite events or activities that we have done so far?

♥ What types of activities would you like to see us do? Do you have ideas how to make the community better? Please, tell us your ideas!

♥ Would you like to write an essay or host a discussion or workshop? We are always looking for contributors! If you have a passion for a certain aspect of writing and want to share, please let us know! If you have something to share on punctuation, characterization, POV, voice, etc? We'd love to hear from you!

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Comments

[tryslora]

I meant to comment on this the other day!

I love WWs. That's probably no secret. I also love chatzy and srs and WWing in srs. (At the moment I vaguely hate chatzy for the fic bunny I have wandering around in my head, but that's something else entirely and it's not HATE hate *laughs*). I also love the interviews, because I love reading about how other authors process their stories. I've made many many new friends, and I love the support and community here and am thankful for the positive impact it has had on my writing and the amount of writing that I do! I'm not sure I would have been nearly as productive as I have been in the last four months without people here egging me on.

...I owe an essay on Scrivener. I have been making screencaps and trying to put things into words.

I'm not sure of other ideas. Basically, anything that pushes me to write more (whatever it is I'm writing) is good, as far as I'm concerned!

[nimielle.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, so many things. Remember that comment I made about beating negativity? I think a lot of the points I made about this being a support group are still valid.

I simply have bad GSD and wor war weekend kharma, as I mostly work during weekends or am working, when something comes up. But it has been like that from moment one.

I've met some wonderful people through this that I love as friends. I got to know some of the authors I loved a lot better and that was a great experience. I have to admit that I moved on to another place to find writing buddies, but that's okay too, because I still come back here all the time.

I would love to see a post on how to prompt properly. Because I either draw a complete blank when it comes to prompting OR get overly specific, but I just FAIL completely at anything in between.

Something else that might be nice would be to I don't know, read a specific fanfic from a member as a group, get them to do a meta post about it (as in why they did this or that, what something alludes to etc.) and then discuss it. Probably too much work for the writer if the comm doesn't take part in it, but I think it's a nice thought.

We could also do something like, pick a fic or comm that has few comments and do a "reading + commenting" war or something and leave and share some love with the authors.

Something else I would like, especially since my schedule is so busy would be to sort of get a posting schedule for what a month on here has got in store. You know, so if one wants to take part in a word war weekend and gets the chance to know early enough in advance they might be able to shuffle stuff around to actually get shit done.

I don't know how much help that would be, or whether I'm good enough, but I would be willing to do another "peak into my work process" sort of post and refer to getting plot sorted out and organised. (that is, once the thing is posted and everything, because anon and such)

And I don't know, maybe have a monthly drabble challenge that can be combined with any other? Like whatever, POV, tense, epistolary style etc.

We could also try to do a thing where we pick a magazine or something that publishes original fic and try to get one or more of us published by writing original fic as a project in here.
--> which would mean, we'd need a workshop on how to do plotty things
--> on how to make worlds or look at our world etc.
--> how to make your own character

Also... again, I'm not sure how much of an authority I am in that field, but we could totally do with an essay or workshop on character development, what constitutes it and what doesn't etc.

I'll try to come up with more stuff, if I find the time. So far though, I love this place. It's beautiful, it's supportive and I feel very much at home here! Thanks for being so wonderful! ♥

[undrsomestairs.livejournal.com]

Like Trys, I LOVE word wars. Both the comm-wide long ones and the short ones in chat. They help me stay focus and write more than anything else. ^_^ I've met some really awesome people through this comm. I started coming into the chats (technically for the old comm, but since most switched over to this one, I think it still applies...) when I was first getting into HP fandom and it really made me love being in the fandom. And it was so nice to have it to come back to again this year after I'd been away!

I'm shy with commenting but there are some awesome discussions that go on here. I don't really have any ideas, but if I do, I'll speak up. ^_^ I love this comm. ♥

[crazyparakiss.livejournal.com]

I met a lot of people I love to talk with. I don't really have much more to contribute.

I mostly avoid discussions(on occasion I pop in and leave thoughts) and stuff like that, but I do like the word wars.

I don't really have a writing partner but everyone is often very encouraging and that is fun and is much appreciated.

If I think of more to say I'll come back. lol.