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Re: Abridge Speculists Meeting Coordination
« Reply #30 on: February 09, 2005, 03:25:49 PM »
This is for an MFA in writing for children application, so I'm just wondering what chapter or two appears to be the strongest. I'm not going to revise heavily, just go over them so that they look and sound good. Perhaps I should dig up an old short story, but this is my most recent work, so I figured it'd be the best representation of where I'm at now. Or I could grab a couple pages of my nonfiction writing for Electrical Apparatus, but I have a feeling it wouldn't be nearly as interesting.

I'll be there tonight. I'll email everybody the whole file, if you wanted to glance over it and remind yourself what happened, in case you don't have the files still. I don't need close reading or even not-close reading, just a general idea of where you think it's strongest, so I can concentrate on making it a little bit stronger for my sample. It just has to be under 20 pages, so that's why I'm thinking one or two chapters--more likely just one.
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Re: Abridge Speculists Meeting Coordination
« Reply #31 on: February 09, 2005, 03:41:53 PM »
Oh, and should Fell still be on our email list? I thought he was going to EUOL's writing group now.
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Re: Abridge Speculists Meeting Coordination
« Reply #32 on: February 14, 2005, 01:28:51 PM »
Okay, I'm going to be revising my submission and sending it out today. I'm posting this to see if there is anyone beside Saint and Stacer who want to see my submission.

MsFish, if you see this, please consider this as a personal invitation to the Abridged Speculists meetings.
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Re: Abridge Speculists Meeting Coordination
« Reply #33 on: February 17, 2005, 03:20:30 PM »
Hmm, are we still on for tonight?

I'm getting nervous.
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Re: Abridge Speculists Meeting Coordination
« Reply #34 on: February 17, 2005, 03:54:21 PM »
yes'm. we meetin'
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Re: Abridge Speculists Meeting Coordination
« Reply #35 on: February 17, 2005, 04:19:35 PM »
Um... I forgot. I made plans for tonight. But wait--9 ASST is 7 here, so ...

No, sorry. We're meeting at 6:30 for dinner, so there's no way I'd be around for 7:00. :-/ Sorry.
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Re: Abridge Speculists Meeting Coordination
« Reply #36 on: February 17, 2005, 05:00:43 PM »
Quote

MsFish, if you see this, please consider this as a personal invitation to the Abridged Speculists meetings.



Hmm.  Just saw this.  Thanks for the invite!  What exactly does this entail?  I might be interested....
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Re: Abridge Speculists Meeting Coordination
« Reply #37 on: February 17, 2005, 05:19:58 PM »
it entails reading whatever's being submitted and then showing up for the chats to talk about it.
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Re: Abridge Speculists Meeting Coordination
« Reply #38 on: February 17, 2005, 05:27:56 PM »
Yes, but how often do people submit?  How much do they submit?  Where do you chat?
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Re: Abridge Speculists Meeting Coordination
« Reply #39 on: February 17, 2005, 06:27:34 PM »
chats are held in #speculists on the undernet (let me know if you need help connecting to IRC). they are at 9pm ASST (which is Eastern) each thursday. That means 7pm if you're in Utah.

at the end of the session we find out if someone has something to submit. If not, we wait till someone announces they have something.
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Re: Abridge Speculists Meeting Coordination
« Reply #40 on: February 17, 2005, 08:14:43 PM »
Well :P on you then, stacer.

/me pouts

I'll email you the questions I was planning on asking tonight.

MsFish, I went ahead and emailed you my submission. Hopefully my writing won't scare you away.  :-/
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Re: Abridge Speculists Meeting Coordination
« Reply #41 on: February 17, 2005, 09:50:07 PM »
How long are the meetings?  Because I'd love to participate, but I have TLE at 7:30 on thursdays.  And I have absolutely no idea what IRC is... ;D  Forgive my ignorance, please.
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Re: Abridge Speculists Meeting Coordination
« Reply #42 on: February 17, 2005, 10:12:20 PM »
Meeting length varies, but is usually about an hour, hour and a half. The time is changeable. I think the only reason that it's on Thursday today is that Stacer was going to be on a plane yesterday.
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Re: Abridge Speculists Meeting Coordination
« Reply #43 on: February 18, 2005, 12:20:26 AM »
Well, technically I was at dinner by that time yesterday, but yes. I'm flexible. And I'm really sorry MoD. (Think Gilbert Blythe with the long O.) Bad planning. It's one of those things that plan a couple things at the same time and don't realize it. I'd planned that last week sometime, probably about the same time we were planning the next AS. :/

I will read and answer questions ASAP. Probably during a "break" tomorrow instead of doing my paper or homework. I have an 8-12 page paper due Tuesday, in "publishable condition," and I haven't even started thinking about it yet. I had thought that it was a 4-5 page essay, which I can rip off really easily. Then Tuesday I looked at it again...

I think I'm just going to have to accept that YA is not my most favorite class and I'm just not going to do as well in it. If I can't get into the literature, I'm not going to be as passionate about the project.
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Re: Abridge Speculists Meeting Coordination
« Reply #44 on: February 18, 2005, 09:07:23 AM »
Fish, I'll hop on AIM sometime soon and help you get connected, show you how to do it. We can move back to Wednesday since Thurs are bad.
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