{"id":300,"date":"2014-06-04T12:12:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T18:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writinginthemargins.ca\/?p=300"},"modified":"2014-06-04T12:12:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T18:12:46","slug":"patchwork-3-5-recap-and-prompts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writinginthemargins.ca\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Patchwork 3.5 recap and prompts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morningish, Patchworkers!<\/p>\n<div>This recap is late, I apologize. Our last session was delightful, although\/because so many of us were experiencing &#8220;brain not braining&#8221; issues.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Our first prompt was from the book &#8220;The Writer&#8217;s Gym.&#8221; We revisited an existing piece of writing, and rewrote the story from the perspective of a non-point-of-view character.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Our second was a two-part prompt, divided into two sections. First, we wrote for ten minutes about an unexplored location (real or fictional). This writing was in a specific form &#8211; writing only about what we expect to find in the space. (ie &#8211; &#8220;I expect there to be shag carpet. I expect the room to be overly warm.&#8221; etc.) Then we set this writing aside.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We wrote for fifteen minutes on prompt came from Ursula K. le Guin&#8217;s book &#8220;Steering the Craft&#8221; &#8211; we wrote for 15 minutes using no adjectives or adverbs. It was challenging, but rewarding! Definitely an exercise I will come back to when my brain is braining.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Finally, we came back to our second exercise and wrote a story in the environment we had set expectations for.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Despite the amount of fog in our heads last Sunday, we got some good writing and thinking done! I am excited about the progress we&#8217;ve each made.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For your Wednesday prompt this week, I want to encourage you to do something a little outside our usual sit-and-write practice. Take a bunch of sticky notes, or index cards, or open up a Scrivener file if that&#8217;s a program you use, or Evernote, or Mind Node, or a big sheet of paper for a mind map or whatever else works for you, and map out your characters and story so far. We&#8217;ve each spent significant time in the fictional worlds that we&#8217;re creating, and sometimes it can be difficult to see the trajectory of our stories or the amount of work we&#8217;ve actually accomplished. Map out your story as it exists now, and sketch in the gaps where you have an idea of the storyline but haven&#8217;t had time\/inspiration\/inclination to write the prose. Make note of areas where you may need to do more research, and areas that you&#8217;re particularly excited out. On Sunday, we&#8217;ll talk about where we&#8217;re at, and what Writing in the Margins can do to help sustain your writing practice beyond this group.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This coming Sunday is our last meeting in this round of Patchwork. I am looking forward to writing with you folks one last time in this group! (Of course, you are *always* welcome to join future Patchwork rounds as well!)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Tiffany<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morningish, Patchworkers!<\/p>\n<p> This recap is late, I apologize. Our last session was delightful, although\/because so many of us were experiencing &#8220;brain not braining&#8221; issues. Our first prompt was from the book &#8220;The Writer&#8217;s Gym.&#8221; We revisited an existing piece of writing, and rewrote the story from the perspective of a non-point-of-view character. 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