Comments on: Weekly Wrap: We Want a Turn

By: Linera Lucas

Linera Lucas — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:10:19 +0000

So glad I read this! It really resonated with me. I have been in several writing critique groups, but now am in a group that is for accountability, and I like that better. We meet to set goals, and then write as we sit together at the coffee shop. Very odd. I didn’t think I could work that way, but it has been very helpful.

Thanks so much for this heartfelt essay.

By: Susan Henderson

Susan Henderson — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 12:01:28 +0000

Just wanted to say I’m enjoying all the conversation here, and I’ll comment more when a few things slow down for me. Right now, I’m kind of racing, racing, racing. Hi to Amy’s mom, who commented in the other thread. That’s wonderful. Okay, see everyone when I get a spare moment. xo

By: Julie Ann Shapiro

Julie Ann Shapiro — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:02:46 +0000

Oh yeah…It’s like we’re the weird round pegs in a square peg world or visa versa. We just get each other.

By: Lori Oliva

Lori Oliva — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:55:51 +0000

I’m not much of a “writers’circle” kind of person. I don’t belong to a group and I keep my opinions to myself…(with the occasional nod to organic food markets, but excuse the lighthearteness…it’s been a shitty week). With that said, what I love about Lit Park and my online community of writer friends is the openness and the freedom to ponder, question and examine work and more importantly, the life of a writer…successful or not. It seems as if we’re all cut from the same cloth.

By: Julie Ann Shapiro

Julie Ann Shapiro — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:56:29 +0000

Awww…just back from the corporate run for a creative job. Can you spell OXYMORON and how many different ways? Oh man…many of my long term clients lost their niches because of changes in Google, which sent me in the market. But man oh man – I need to write stories and now more material. Not that there is ever a shortage!

I just want to give everyone a hug because this place is wonderful in so many ways. There are writers here that I previously would never have met or realized that I could connect with and who understand this journey and how incredibly necessary it is as a writer. Without the support circle it’s writing and challeges. With the support circle there is warmth. Pardon me for getting all mushy, but I’m truly touched.

Hey Nick – How cool to find your call more for my rewrite. I’ll send it off to you. Even, wound up with a part two on that story.

Julie

By: n.l. belardes

n.l. belardes — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:18:57 +0000

I’m the one who pissed in James “Minuteman” jacket. Now it has total punk rock sex appeal.

Susan better not tell what I wrote. It’s only for her lusty mind…

hehehaha…

James, come and visit Paperback Writer. You might have two cents on this article about me being a DIY bastard. You can also see photos of me beating the shit out of myself right before I lusted after your “kalaidoscope of boobs” quote…

By the way everyone, The Noveltown Review went to press yesterday, which means a few things 1) I still need Shapiro’s rewrite of TOXIC CLOUD, and 2) James Spring better write some good stufferooni for it… 3)Susan will finally get to see what I named her story…

lots of love! -n.l.

By: Amy Wallen

Amy Wallen — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:44:42 +0000

James is just trying to see if he can get his words banned by Susan too. The reason he knows I mispronounce negligee is because he wears them to our writing group. they’re actually quite nice ones. lacy.

I belong to two writing groups and I know I learn more from other people’s writing than what’s on my own pages. Still, trust is essential.

By: Carolyn Burns Bass

Carolyn Burns Bass — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:24:51 +0000

I love the community of writers I’ve found here and at Backspace, but like Annaliese’s friend, I prefer to write alone and share it as a whole. Yet, I love critiquing other writer’s material in various stages of completion.

I’ve recently seen one of my favorite online colleagues, Jon Clinch, taste enormous success with his book FINN. Watching him go from an author with six novels he couldn’t get representation for to literal overnight success just feels great. I mean GREAT!

(Read my little FINN fanpost here.)

By: Mary Akers

Mary Akers — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:13:18 +0000

Sue, you are so real and brave. I agree, this week at LitPark has been especially fabulous. Thank you.

By: James Spring

James Spring — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:34:36 +0000

Christ. I had so much to write here, but nobody will ever see it, because reading Amy’s post will take them until the end of their natural lives.

Susan – you’re brilliant and wonderful. In the books section of my MySpace page (NOW WITH 18 FRIENDS!), I tell the world (or my 18 friends) that you’re the one to watch. A lot of people probably don’t know that the idea for this interview came to me during the night that you and Josh and I went drinking in Manhattan, and later, while one of us was torching up the spoon full of heroin, you made the observation that when we were done shooting up, we should go through town with a big stick and treat all the famous authors like baby harp seals. I agreed, and stated that, in Manhattan , there were probably a dozen on every block. But then we remembered that Josh is famous, and he brought the smack, and we realized that not all famous people are bad.

A lot has changed for me in these few weeks. Here’s what I’ve learned: famous authors stick together, especially when their bodies have been piled in the back of my SUV for three days as I search for a suitable mass grave.

As for that filthy, filthy n.l. character, I’m pretty sure I know what he wrote, too. That he didn’t know he could have those kinds of feeling for another man until he read my words. And that he would love to see me in a pink negligee (or as Amy says, “nagligly”), perhaps after a Crisco bath, and singing the song from the musical Rent, the one with all the math in it. Am I right, you pervert? Am I? Five words for you, then, pal: “Offer me a book deal.”