BLAST IT!!
Boot Camp is running an August Blast. (FREE)
http://bootcampkeegan.yuku.com/
This involves "EXTREME" activity to get us through the hardest month for writers.
It involves members (and guests) committing/attempting to write EVERY day (at least SOMETHING)
and attempting to complete a flash or story or poem EVERY day for the whole of August.
A set of prompts will be posted every morning and twice every evening (see explanations elsewhere)
and Members/Guests should try and produce a flash or story a MINIMUM of once a day.<
The trick is to try to write THREE!
For the five Sundays there is also a STORY deadline 8PM Sunday.
The ideal participant would write a flash every day, some days more than one, AND manage a story each week
PLEASE don't bleat and say it cannot be done. We KNOW it can be done. We know that the quality of work
IMPROVES due to the pressure, the hectic nature, the "buzz".
Boot Campers and guests (Children in Need, Previous Blasts, East of the Web) have been responsible for hundreds
of publications and more than twenty first prizes in competitions, all from "impossible" blasts.
There is something in the very nature of suspending all and crashing forward, a sense of fear moves to one of liberation
ALL WE CAN SAY IS TRY IT.
CURRENT BOOT CAMPERS, FORMER BOOT CAMPERS AND STRANGERS/GUESTS ARE ALL WELCOME. There are a number of "AUGUST BLAST" forums. Apply here (no charge) and Alex will arrange access to the other forums.
We ask a few things
1. Commitment. If you aren't prepared to "give it a go" don't bother applying.
2. A sense of constructivity, in work, commitment, mutual motivation.
3. A willingness to (briefly) critique flashes and critique stories (authors are anonymous) and NOT to respond when your own story is critiqued 4. NO Flames. I do not warn people. I simply delete them, IMMEDIATELY.
http://bootcampkeegan.yuku.com/
This involves "EXTREME" activity to get us through the hardest month for writers.
It involves members (and guests) committing/attempting to write EVERY day (at least SOMETHING)
and attempting to complete a flash or story or poem EVERY day for the whole of August.
A set of prompts will be posted every morning and twice every evening (see explanations elsewhere)
and Members/Guests should try and produce a flash or story a MINIMUM of once a day.<
The trick is to try to write THREE!
For the five Sundays there is also a STORY deadline 8PM Sunday.
The ideal participant would write a flash every day, some days more than one, AND manage a story each week
PLEASE don't bleat and say it cannot be done. We KNOW it can be done. We know that the quality of work
IMPROVES due to the pressure, the hectic nature, the "buzz".
Boot Campers and guests (Children in Need, Previous Blasts, East of the Web) have been responsible for hundreds
of publications and more than twenty first prizes in competitions, all from "impossible" blasts.
There is something in the very nature of suspending all and crashing forward, a sense of fear moves to one of liberation
ALL WE CAN SAY IS TRY IT.
CURRENT BOOT CAMPERS, FORMER BOOT CAMPERS AND STRANGERS/GUESTS ARE ALL WELCOME. There are a number of "AUGUST BLAST" forums. Apply here (no charge) and Alex will arrange access to the other forums.
We ask a few things
1. Commitment. If you aren't prepared to "give it a go" don't bother applying.
2. A sense of constructivity, in work, commitment, mutual motivation.
3. A willingness to (briefly) critique flashes and critique stories (authors are anonymous) and NOT to respond when your own story is critiqued 4. NO Flames. I do not warn people. I simply delete them, IMMEDIATELY.
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