Re: footnote #1. The first time I see a playmate or flirty friend reading is always a turning point. My heart jumps into my throat a little as I recalculate the person's focus, curiosity, and self-sufficiency. Extra points when they're reading a book by you, Mr. P!
Happy to help you vet spaces in Chicago. The top floor of the Harold Washington Library is a light-filled dream but I'm not sure the cost of rentals nowadays.
I've been considering a move to the Portland area forever and it would be one more reason to relocate...but I'm also curious if starting up such a space in Boise would give me reason to stay. Our writing community feels really disjointed for genre writers. We have The Cabin but from what I understand they only run workshop like once a week over Zoom for the time being.
Wow! I'm jelly that I don't live in the Portland area. How do you feel about me/us starting our own Study Halls? Moreover, how do you feel about attaching your name to different spins on the idea? For example, I'm a morning writer, and I'm rural. If I started a virtual AM version, would that be too much of a departure from your vision? I'd keep it free of charge. Wadda ya think?
I’ve been wanting to drive up to Portland for years. This would give me a great excuse. I appreciate that you’re so generous to the writing community. Very admirable =)
But... surely the best place to write is a remote woodsy location where you drag tour family so you can neglect them as vengeful spirits pick them off one by one. Did horror movies lie to me?! *chin wibble*😥
This is an amazing vision. I work in a public library as an archivist, and hours are the biggest limiter in working there, which is a bummer. But also as a library employee, I'm ok with not being there until 10.
I'd gladly help vet spaces in San Francisco! I tried something like this once through MeetUp, but the group was always one or two people in a tiny space
Re: footnote #1. The first time I see a playmate or flirty friend reading is always a turning point. My heart jumps into my throat a little as I recalculate the person's focus, curiosity, and self-sufficiency. Extra points when they're reading a book by you, Mr. P!
And I never look at them the same way again.
Happy to help you vet spaces in Chicago. The top floor of the Harold Washington Library is a light-filled dream but I'm not sure the cost of rentals nowadays.
The first rule of write club is to talk about write club
I am on that awful first draft. I nearly threw it out yesterday. A study hall here in U.K. would be welcomed
I've been considering a move to the Portland area forever and it would be one more reason to relocate...but I'm also curious if starting up such a space in Boise would give me reason to stay. Our writing community feels really disjointed for genre writers. We have The Cabin but from what I understand they only run workshop like once a week over Zoom for the time being.
Color me an idiot. I mean Lidia Corporeal Writing space. See! I am a lazy ass.
Study Hall sounds lovely.
Wow! I'm jelly that I don't live in the Portland area. How do you feel about me/us starting our own Study Halls? Moreover, how do you feel about attaching your name to different spins on the idea? For example, I'm a morning writer, and I'm rural. If I started a virtual AM version, would that be too much of a departure from your vision? I'd keep it free of charge. Wadda ya think?
Maybe in the future, Study Hall could become a non-profit type enterprise and be funded that way?
Advocate for a Massachusetts study hall checking in ✔
My first thought reading about Study Hall in other cities - "Fucker's setting up franchises."
I love the idea!
I’ve been wanting to drive up to Portland for years. This would give me a great excuse. I appreciate that you’re so generous to the writing community. Very admirable =)
But... surely the best place to write is a remote woodsy location where you drag tour family so you can neglect them as vengeful spirits pick them off one by one. Did horror movies lie to me?! *chin wibble*😥
Thorazine... the writer's muse.
This is an amazing vision. I work in a public library as an archivist, and hours are the biggest limiter in working there, which is a bummer. But also as a library employee, I'm ok with not being there until 10.
I'd gladly help vet spaces in San Francisco! I tried something like this once through MeetUp, but the group was always one or two people in a tiny space