My primary hang-out on the Web. The workshop is neither literary nor free creatvity, but based on writing for professional commercial publication. My co-founder is S.A. Bolich. Other published authors in the group are John Fluet and Bren McDibble.
This is the base site and bookstore. The Links page there is a great place to locate specfi publishers or even other workshops. I'm not going to duplicate those here: go and look.
The actual work is done on a mailing list that started at ONElist, which was bought by eGroups, which was bought by Yahoo!Groups.
Participation requires that you be 18 or older, and do at least two subs or crits per month, crit twice as much as you sub, and sub at least once a year (no "professional critters"). A normal crit at many workshops would be a no-credit "shortcrit" here. It's hard work, both critting and revising those subs to rise to the crits. A positive but business-like attitude prevails.
It's a case of writers helping writers get past their blind spots, plot holes, and writing snags. As our growing list of published members proves, OWWW works!
Book-in-a-Week is another e-mail list, my second hang-out. No workshopping. Instead, once a month we take a week to all "blitz draft": write as much as we can as fast as we can. M.E. Wood is the moderator and whip-snapper. At all times, the group is wonderful moral support and a remarkable source of professional information. The range of genres we write in pretty much represents everything. Not even just fiction: Mayan astrology, screenplays, song lyrics, textbooks. If you're tired of not getting that writing done, this is a place to try. Check the member's sites list for the number of published authors who blitz-draft as a writing method: Kaitlyn Rice, Susannah Carleton, Candie Moonshower, Carolyn Ann Aish, Jamie Summers, etc.
My best friend in writerdom. Professionally published in everything from SF short stories to horse magazines.
This author's page has two sides, one in English and one in her native Finnish. Be sure to check her how-to pages for writers. Most of them she gets in English, then does the Finnish translations herself.
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