Dear Fellow Inhabitants of Planet Earth, Visitors from nearby solar systems, and People Who Just Don’t Care (You're in Your Own Category):
Round 2 of The Thing That Wouldn't Shut Up - Winnie Khaw for Writeway
I'll be back from vacation (that's what you call a trip during which you spend horrifying amounts of money and feel nauseatingly sick in the car) probably early next week.
It would be really nice, a great belated Christmas gift actually, if, in the case that you're interested you would reply.
Moan Yes, Screech No, either answer is acceptable. But I would like to get the basic foundation established before break is over. (Joy, Sheena, we must talk)
Lecture over. :)
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You May Not Know Me, But I Know You.
Or at least, I know your e-mail addresses, which, with the power of the Mighty Internet, is the equivalent of buying your soul.
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I need to clarify and condense.
Benefits: I'm putting this at the very top.
This will be an exercise in writing, to stretch out kinks and tight literary muscles. You might not see immediate benefits, but the gradual changes will come.
You will have to write essays for probably the rest of your academic career. For some of us, that ends as soon as we set foot on campus. For others, this is an area treaded upon with trepidation.
Imagine this as a camera taking snapshots of the way you think and are right now. When staring at your college applications, you'll be able to look back at your past work and instantly recall YOURSELF.
It's all about you.
Vision:
1. Community of blogs - personal blogs by Sunny Hills students already extant
2. Collaboration (Writing) Blog - loose "staff" of writers (mainly there to guarantee quality and to continue the flow of ideas)
This is of more general interest (hopefully obvious) than the personal blog.
Nonfiction (essays on literature), fiction (stories, plays, poems, etc.)—here is the workshop, where we see revision
a) Book/Movie Reviews
b) Analysis of Literature/Times/Periods
c) Interviewsd) Work-In-Progress, Rough Drafts
e) Forum
f) Feature Artist/Artwork
g) E-mailed magazine (monthly?)h) Writer’s journal, tips, tools (computer programs)
i) Jokes/Quotes (I have hundreds of pages. What a nerd.)
j) Random facts/trivia k) Archives of Past Work (see below)
l) Extensive Revision Process - revisions shown step-by-step
m) Feature Author/Work
n) Book/Movie Parodies/Mockerieso) Plays/Skits
p) Poetryq) Amateur Fiction Review/Recommendation (Fan fiction?)
r) Interesting Anecdotes
If this all seems overwhelming, please take a deep breath and sit down. If you haven't had an asthma attack before, small chance you're having one now.
These are simply ideas thrown to lay out the possibilities, which are endless. Now stop breathing and just think about this.
(5 seconds later) Exhale.
Any work done in the past is entirely acceptable. There is absolutely no reason to feel pressured to constantly be churning out masterpieces.
3. E-zine/Archives
Perhaps an e-mailed monthly/bimonthly issue of the best/featured/in some way interesting work received.
Editors might never have to see each other. With few exceptions, no one is really "qualified." But sometimes just having another opinion is helpful.
The archives will probably need a website of some kind.
~~~~
There are countless websites out there fostering the growth of writing. Fictionpress, fanfiction--to state the obvious. This should be tighter, with more control over the content, relevant to SH students, with a high quality standard.
Please visit http://hicsepultus.blogspot.com/ to view some recent work if you're interested a.k.a. morbidly curious.
Reply to this message as soon as you get it, as in before you leave the room, before you brush your teeth, before you inhale.
If you know anyone who would be interested, please inform either myself, Sheena (svasani@sbcglobal.net), or Joy the little hyperactive elf – I need to distinguish her from the Other Joy in my life, who is always so calm and serene that she reminds me of a Buddha on Slim Fast (jeye2345@adelphia.net) and “pay it forward.” Just ... don’t die at the end.
If you’d like, I can also e-mail past essays and stories. But I doubt your inbox would appreciate that.
I'll be back from vacation (that's what you call a trip during which you spend horrifying amounts of money and feel nauseatingly sick in the car) probably early next week.
It would be really nice, a great belated Christmas gift actually, if, in the case that you're interested you would reply.
Moan Yes, Screech No, either answer is acceptable. But I would like to get the basic foundation established before break is over. (Joy, Sheena, we must talk)
Lecture over. :)
~~~~~~~~~~~
You May Not Know Me, But I Know You.
Or at least, I know your e-mail addresses, which, with the power of the Mighty Internet, is the equivalent of buying your soul.
~~
I need to clarify and condense.
Benefits: I'm putting this at the very top.
This will be an exercise in writing, to stretch out kinks and tight literary muscles. You might not see immediate benefits, but the gradual changes will come.
You will have to write essays for probably the rest of your academic career. For some of us, that ends as soon as we set foot on campus. For others, this is an area treaded upon with trepidation.
Imagine this as a camera taking snapshots of the way you think and are right now. When staring at your college applications, you'll be able to look back at your past work and instantly recall YOURSELF.
It's all about you.
Vision:
1. Community of blogs - personal blogs by Sunny Hills students already extant
2. Collaboration (Writing) Blog - loose "staff" of writers (mainly there to guarantee quality and to continue the flow of ideas)
This is of more general interest (hopefully obvious) than the personal blog.
Nonfiction (essays on literature), fiction (stories, plays, poems, etc.)—here is the workshop, where we see revision
a) Book/Movie Reviews
b) Analysis of Literature/Times/Periods
c) Interviewsd) Work-In-Progress, Rough Drafts
e) Forum
f) Feature Artist/Artwork
g) E-mailed magazine (monthly?)h) Writer’s journal, tips, tools (computer programs)
i) Jokes/Quotes (I have hundreds of pages. What a nerd.)
j) Random facts/trivia k) Archives of Past Work (see below)
l) Extensive Revision Process - revisions shown step-by-step
m) Feature Author/Work
n) Book/Movie Parodies/Mockerieso) Plays/Skits
p) Poetryq) Amateur Fiction Review/Recommendation (Fan fiction?)
r) Interesting Anecdotes
If this all seems overwhelming, please take a deep breath and sit down. If you haven't had an asthma attack before, small chance you're having one now.
These are simply ideas thrown to lay out the possibilities, which are endless. Now stop breathing and just think about this.
(5 seconds later) Exhale.
Any work done in the past is entirely acceptable. There is absolutely no reason to feel pressured to constantly be churning out masterpieces.
3. E-zine/Archives
Perhaps an e-mailed monthly/bimonthly issue of the best/featured/in some way interesting work received.
Editors might never have to see each other. With few exceptions, no one is really "qualified." But sometimes just having another opinion is helpful.
The archives will probably need a website of some kind.
~~~~
There are countless websites out there fostering the growth of writing. Fictionpress, fanfiction--to state the obvious. This should be tighter, with more control over the content, relevant to SH students, with a high quality standard.
Please visit http://hicsepultus.blogspot.com/ to view some recent work if you're interested a.k.a. morbidly curious.
Reply to this message as soon as you get it, as in before you leave the room, before you brush your teeth, before you inhale.
If you know anyone who would be interested, please inform either myself, Sheena (svasani@sbcglobal.net), or Joy the little hyperactive elf – I need to distinguish her from the Other Joy in my life, who is always so calm and serene that she reminds me of a Buddha on Slim Fast (jeye2345@adelphia.net) and “pay it forward.” Just ... don’t die at the end.
If you’d like, I can also e-mail past essays and stories. But I doubt your inbox would appreciate that.
