I hang around two forums, now — modest ones, since I’m not much for crowds who like keggers and gossip for their mainstay. One of the things which just doesn’t interest me much is the coffee klatch, that is talk about anything unrelated to the main reason for the board. Neither do I like places where:
- there is a great deal of focus on measuring one’s acceptability on whether one agrees with the board’s status quo and super-clique,
- the major players diligently target people, members and non-members, as prey for their verbal castigation,
- the primary discussions seem to be dissing alternative perspectives.
Of course, that rules out the majority of the popular writers and novelists’ boards and newsgroups. So far, QueryTracker.net’s forum hasn’t demonstrated any of these tendencies, so I’m happy to work with them. z7.zentao7.com/forum is another which fits the bill, though I don’t post, but only lurk under another handle. They critique novels, especially works-in-progress, and I’m just not much for that sort of thing. I use Beta readers gleaned from their ranks, as well as real world contacts.
Recently:
- Moving is Tough on Writing Novels
- Move complete & back online…when the DSL doesn’t falter
- Offline for a week.
- The ‘I’ Proposition
- No, I didn’t get eaten by my novel.
- Scott Heim reads We Disappear at last reading at Chelsea
- Hunger in the World
- What a Beta Reader Can & Cannot Do
- A Gift for Eternity Finds a Home
- Today’s Giggle: SE vs Employee, the Benefits — Not.
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