spelunkingplato alerted me to The MayFly Project. Seems interesting and encouraging of concision (a word used here to mean concise-ness) although some of their examples are rather uninteresting. Seems like it could make a good poem or haiku series or something.

(Forget trying to spew out a novel during the month of November.
Try instead writing a good solid paragraph that no one can put down.)


( Announcing: Olivian Paragraph Month )

Potential submission for "Rude Girl"

( This still needs a decent ending )

...is a quote (I believe) from a poem by Andrea Boffey.

You may already be familiar with mehoketor with Derivations
I got my previous LJ so I could post to my school's community LJ, and Derivations so that I could feel pseudo-publishy. I hoped that updating a blog would encourage me to write or to compile previous writings for an unknown audience. While that is certainly a useful feature, the problem I run into is that I feel semi-official about Derivations posts. It would be useful to have a less formal work area for my own processing, for shared writing, and for feedback. I have an online pseudo-publishing, but no related online writing studio or workshop.
And I am slowly learning the incredible usefulness of internet networking.

That is where this journal and you guys come in.
People on this LJ's F-list will be only those who I might show my real physical notebook to in real life.
This Journal will probably be more personal than my others since it will contain a lot of raw material. This is an unloading ground of sorts. An online journal desktop.

I would like it to use it as a be a freewriting and revising tool.

And thankyou, gmatk, for being such a good Namer.