Well it's understandable. College just started for me as well and I also have the LB to deal with atm. We could try and turn Birt's idea into a monthly and eventually turn back to weeklies upon open time slots that we have :U
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@Wyrm: Since you seem to have the most time out of all of us, could you also help do some research for us on different writing activities? Being part of a clan is not just simply waiting around for others, but also being proactive on how to help the group as a whole. I apologize for being inactive on my part (college doesn't really give that much time back anymore), but I'll try to keep posted on here.
I don't think we should simply just sit and wait for someone to act, so I'm proposing that we try to come up with interesting writing exercises to bring back to the clan. I have found a neat little
site that already has a bunch of them~!
From there I suggest we do the Deja Vu one!
Deja Vu. Write a 500-word sketch of a scene in which a character has an experience that causes her to recall a startlingly similar past experience. Juxtapose the two scenes, the present one and the past one, on top of each other, writing, for instance, two or three sentences of the present moment, then alternating back and forth between present and past that way. Show the reader the remembered scene by use of Italics. Why would a character be haunted like this? Think of a convincing reason for the deja vu experience. Or don’t worry too much about convincing reasons—just let some strange set of events impinge on the present moment of your character. Be playful with the relationship. Simple advice to beginners: don’t be heavy-handed. It’s easier said than done, I know, but you can train yourself to relax and honor your readers with difficult and unusual human patterns of behavior. Always flatter your readers by proposing a complex and unexpected reality.
