Hey. I'm Cassandra, I've just signed up, and I have no idea what I'm in for. Sure, like most of you I write, but I haven't been doing so much of that lately and I need a kick up the arse to get back into it. Maybe this will help, maybe it won't. Who knows. But I like what I've read of the articles around here so far so I figured I'd sign up.
I guess what I mean to say is: hi.
Thanks! Taking things seriously is certainly heartening. I wish there was more of that around.
I mostly write short stories. I've tried my hand at playwrighting but I wasn't very good at it (apparently you don't put sci-fi/spec-fic on the stage) and I've got a few novel drafts hiding in the dusty back rooms of my hard drive. I've just started working on story about an infestation of carnivourous marsupials, and my first story accepted/about-to-be-published is about "companion" robots. So pretty much I write about whatever the story tells me to write.
Thanks for the welcome, guys!
Averydoll - normally I work during the day like a regular person (or at least in the guise of one) too, but time zone shenanigans means I miss most folks anyway. You just happen to have caught me on a sick day.
So how does it work around here with the critiquing/reveiwing and all? Is it honest, rigourous, dirty-sweaty kind of critiquing? Or the more gently-gently snuggly-warm approach? Last community I played with had a "no critiquing/arse-kissing only" policy which didn't really work for me (or my writing).
I've mostly been reading the craft essays so far today but I'm keen to check things out.
Conley - Sorry, but I never watched Friends (our TVs were permanently tuned to British soap operas when I was growing up). There weren't any spaceships in this script, though. It was actually a satire on the previous Federal government's "history wars" and treason laws, but because it didn't feature a depressed, pregnant junkie in love the playwright group I was hanging with got confused.
