Writing Think Tank

[Genevieve]

Hello, everyone!

I thought it might be a good idea to start up a thread where the writers at CP can brainstorm about the writing content of each issue. We've had several types of contributions in the past: poetry, short stories and articles, mostly.

I guess my first goal here is to get a sense of our writers' opinions and any suggestions people may have. I'd also like this to be a thread where we can bounce wacky and not-so-wacky ideas off each other and just play around with ideas in general.

Issue VI is set to be released this September, alongside whatever copies of Issue V we have left by then. That means we have until about the end of July to get final drafts written and submitted. After that, I'd like to have a couple of weeks for the copy-editing and layout integration process. We'd have all that done by mid-August, which is when the mag itself should be ready to be sent to the printers. Two weeks after that, the printers will tell us that it's ready to pick up and bish-bash-bosh: we've got Issue VI in time for F!rosh Week.

So I guess in the mean time, before the end of July, the time is ripe for brainstorming and fielding any comments or suggestions from our writing contributors.

Sewwww.... Whaddaya guys think? ;D

[Pocket]

Good idea. *thumbs up*

Shen was saying a little blurb about drawing that I think would have filled in a nice space in the magazine with a nice sketchy background. Something about how drawing takes a lot of skill and effort. I don't remember it exactly but at the moment it sounded like something an art magazine would have.

[Advent Childhe]

Greetings:

I think this is a great idea! This will help all the fledgling writers (or those, like me, with writer's block) in their wordscrafting endeavours!


For the Riptide Project,
Advent Childhe,

[Velata]

... May I...?

Another idea for the writing parts of the magazine may have been started in this part of the forum already. What if we give a poetic challenge to the general reader audience, too? Instead (or on top of) the "Inspired" challenge (which is geared usually geared more towards the visual arts), a literary challenge can be given.

This part of the forum has already given us some examples. Of course, we'd also want to give the audience easy ones to attempt (and I admit, the Terza Rima is much too difficult for this sort of "challenges"). But Genevieve's first challenge sounds like a good place to start. We can also give the pieces in the forum as examples when we issue the challenges... to "show the grabbing ivy the way to climb."

On top of that, we might want to invite the story writers in the magazine to conduct "interviews" where they can explain and expand on their thinking processes when they write. A "Writers' Clinic" might also be a good idea in the future... to help the fledgling writers and those sorely beset with the proverbial "writers' block."

Just a few more choices in your general food for thought at the meeting.

I remain, as ever;