How to Talk to Other Writers - Welcome to the Forever Workshop Community Corner
Come hang out with us
The lesson comment sections are great for asking instructors questions, but are kinda shit at providing space to get to know the other writers taking the workshop, so we made a community corner!
Every week, Jo will facilitate new discussions here with the goal of helping you find your people. A literary wing woman, if you will.
The topics will be workshop-adjacent and collaboration-based. Stuff like feedback swaps, prompts, deep dives, FAQs and more!
The social butterflies will be happy, the cute lil’ hermit crabs will come out of their shells, and the cats that just want to do their thing probably won’t come.
Alright then, let’s get started:
*Hermit Shel hands microphone to butterfly Jo*
Oh, hello!
I’m Jo Gatford, your resident in-house editor, fiction fixer, narrative noodler, and literary maitre d’. Basically, I’m here to help you shoot the sh*t.
Since it’s our first week together, I’d like to open it up by learning a bit more about you. What are you working on right now? What part of the process makes makes you groan and procrasti-clean your kitchen instead of writing?
Basically, if your author bio were 100% honest, what would it say?
Example: I’m currently working on a fantasy-western novel and have re-written my opening chapter at least twenty-f*ck-zillion times so far. I love writing conflict-laden arguments (yay dialogue!) but hate exposition (or rather, I hate having to figure out how to do it efficiently.)
How about you?
Introduce yourself below!
Um. You guys? We were not expecting 300+ comments on our first community post... But THANK YOU all for jumping in and saying hi and sharing your wonderful thoughts and words and ideas with each other.
Clearly we can't reply to everyone but HOLY WOW, WE LOVE YOU ALL!
I'm Ben. I currently have anywhere from 300-500 half-baked first drafts that need to be cleaned up and submitted but my god that’s fucking boring so I just keep writing more and more half-baked first drafts hoping some day I’ll be rich enough to afford a really good editor to look at them all and tell me how to make them better or, more likely, narrow them down to the 3-5 that are actually publishable. I like to write short things and weird things. I also hate exposition. I am suspicious whether there is a way to do it efficiently.