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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
Today I had a blast. Right from work I went over to The Matrix--which is a little nightclub/performance space.
Filler--started going there in November for NaNoWriMo, and a bunch of us writers in the area wanted to get together and continue meeting. So we started meeting there once a month for a workshop, and twice a month for a writing critique group. Tonight was a workshop night.
We had to pick one of our characters and act like them the whole night. We had a round of therapy, a few group activities, then a Q&A monologue, where one of us would go on stage and talk in character and get asked questions. I filmed most of it and had the hardest time not laughing out loud. Trying to hard to keep quiet that I was crying at one point.
I choose to be Ben, one of my shy gay boys from my NaNo. My attempt at dressing up (wasn't mandatory) was to comb back my hair in a ponytail (woot, it is long enough to do that with now) and wear my glasses. Also put on a denim shirt and used a messenger bag to carry all my crap in.
By filming, I didn't have to participate much (again woot!), but now I want Ben to play around with a camcorder in my Novel--I had a blast doing that. Hoping we get to continue along next month and have another round of therapy.
The group consisted of: A young girl (10 or so), a guy who was 'born to be good,' a lady who was writing a memoir of her life--who doubled as our therapist for the evening--a young woman who caught the eye of a Lord and finds out he is not who he seems to be, a dragon, a half man half orc, a vampire....those were the biggies. Not all did the Monologue Q&A and didn't stand out enough in our therapy to get to know them better.
So I was there from 5 until 11:30.
Wow o.o;
Filler--started going there in November for NaNoWriMo, and a bunch of us writers in the area wanted to get together and continue meeting. So we started meeting there once a month for a workshop, and twice a month for a writing critique group. Tonight was a workshop night.
We had to pick one of our characters and act like them the whole night. We had a round of therapy, a few group activities, then a Q&A monologue, where one of us would go on stage and talk in character and get asked questions. I filmed most of it and had the hardest time not laughing out loud. Trying to hard to keep quiet that I was crying at one point.
I choose to be Ben, one of my shy gay boys from my NaNo. My attempt at dressing up (wasn't mandatory) was to comb back my hair in a ponytail (woot, it is long enough to do that with now) and wear my glasses. Also put on a denim shirt and used a messenger bag to carry all my crap in.
By filming, I didn't have to participate much (again woot!), but now I want Ben to play around with a camcorder in my Novel--I had a blast doing that. Hoping we get to continue along next month and have another round of therapy.
The group consisted of: A young girl (10 or so), a guy who was 'born to be good,' a lady who was writing a memoir of her life--who doubled as our therapist for the evening--a young woman who caught the eye of a Lord and finds out he is not who he seems to be, a dragon, a half man half orc, a vampire....those were the biggies. Not all did the Monologue Q&A and didn't stand out enough in our therapy to get to know them better.
So I was there from 5 until 11:30.
Wow o.o;