The Writing Life: CGAG'd!

[lagilman]

Tonight was the semi-monthly CGAG writers' group meeting, wherein everyone actually submitted something for critting. Yay us!

The group got the first two chapters of the New Project from me. This is a rather interesting departure for me, stylewise, and I was more'n a bit nervous. Despite some nitpicking and "you hadn't had coffee when you typed this bit," it passed muster surprisingly well. In fact, it's possible to say that they liked it. Even with all the semi-colons. *grin*

Yay me. Yay Manon. Yay Seb. Onward to chapter three...


(it was also a good meeting in that there was a) a bottle of wine and b) expensive chocolates, because a) a member had had a bad day and b) other members had sold work. Okay, so the diet starts tomorrow).

Comments

[debg.livejournal.com]

I adore semi-colons; they have an elegance lacking in commas.

Back to baking...

[lagilman]

and this is a much more elegant book, in many ways, than the Retrievers series. Different writing style. I think they were a little surprised by that,.

Silly CGAGers. They've known me long enough to know I have many different facets (and each and everyone of them cracked).

[debg.livejournal.com]

Our minds are as one. Switching from my own usual voice for Cruel Sister - fairly sharp, fairly lyrical, no extraneous prose, virtually no swearing - to JP Kinkaid's voice - ageing British rocker, Londoner, definiteively male - had a few people blinking.

I mean, I have voice and love having voice. But who says we only have to have the one voice?