Basically what this topic is dedicated to is helping improve our writing skills. I have a Creative Writing book that I had to buy, and it has a few pretty decent exercises that I'm sure can and will help all of us develop as better writers. I also have quite a few ideas myself (mostly from reading the book and thinking, Wha?? That's stupid. It should be THIS.) that I'll be posting as well.
Basically, I'll post one assignment at a time, and what you do is complete it on here. - Be sure to quote the assignment you're completing because others may come on later and want to do the first assignment when we're on number 4 or something.
We, as your fellow "classmates" (for lack of a better term), and this is the most important part, will then critique it nicely and point out what we both like and DON'T like. - Don't like is key, because while we all love praise, (which it DEFINITELY needs to be present here), I know that I am particularly grateful when I receive constructive criticism. In other words, give balanced reviews.
The assignments will vary in length, but never be too long.
I'm talking MAYBE 2 pages at most - and that'd be if we were just doing dialogue. Usually, it'll probably be something like a couple paragraphs. But about lengths...
THEY ARE ARBITRARY. If I put a page length in the assignment, it's just for a rough estimate of direction/depth.
Just write as much or as little as you need to in order to meet your own goals as well as the goals of the assignment.This is Blissful Ignorance, so in reference to the characters/plots of our stories/exercises that we write on here, they NEED to fall into step with the rules of BI.
That means no yaoi, Harry Potter (cry), etc. There's nothing that says you can't ask for advice on those pieces either, though. The people in this topic specifically would probably be willing to help.So... Let's get cracking.
You're participating too, right?
