Yeah...it's really tough. I actually did the challenge on my own (by accident really) when I was working on a project and then decided the following year to try the "official" version. BIG mistake I'm still paying for in some ways. Their closed message boards were echo-chambers of nastiness. God forbid you wrote anything other than queer…
Yeah...it's really tough. I actually did the challenge on my own (by accident really) when I was working on a project and then decided the following year to try the "official" version. BIG mistake I'm still paying for in some ways. Their closed message boards were echo-chambers of nastiness. God forbid you wrote anything other than queer speculative fantasy or the like...
The sad thing is I've found better writing communities once I left the realm of the "declared" writing forums. People who enjoy a particular TV show or fiction genre are often quite good at giving feedback, and they're nowhere near as locked into the dogma that's currently possessing parts of the fiction community. It's also fun to help them learn to get some of their own stories down...so many of the writing forums are also excessively hostile to newcomers or new writers.
Yeah...it's really tough. I actually did the challenge on my own (by accident really) when I was working on a project and then decided the following year to try the "official" version. BIG mistake I'm still paying for in some ways. Their closed message boards were echo-chambers of nastiness. God forbid you wrote anything other than queer speculative fantasy or the like...
The sad thing is I've found better writing communities once I left the realm of the "declared" writing forums. People who enjoy a particular TV show or fiction genre are often quite good at giving feedback, and they're nowhere near as locked into the dogma that's currently possessing parts of the fiction community. It's also fun to help them learn to get some of their own stories down...so many of the writing forums are also excessively hostile to newcomers or new writers.