Comments on: Rainforest Writer’s Retreat and a lack of self-discovery http://pendorwright.com/2009/03/08/rainforest-writers-retreat-and-a-lack-of-self-discovery/ Quality science fiction and fantasy erotica since 1989 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:42:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Bonnie C. http://pendorwright.com/2009/03/08/rainforest-writers-retreat-and-a-lack-of-self-discovery/comment-page-1/#comment-3946 Bonnie C. Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:49:18 +0000 http://pendorwright.com/?p=199#comment-3946 Stumbled on this blog by accident in searching for info about retreats, and was glad for the insight about the retreat being hampered by availability of Internet and ADD (both of which are problems for me too!) A friend in one of my critique groups recently turned me on to this site: http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html which you might like for increasing word count per hour. Anyhow, good luck to you, and thanks for sharing your opinion about Rainforest Writers Retreat! Bonnie C. Stumbled on this blog by accident in searching for info about retreats, and was glad for the insight about the retreat being hampered by availability of Internet and ADD (both of which are problems for me too!) A friend in one of my critique groups recently turned me on to this site:
http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html which you might like for increasing word count per hour. Anyhow, good luck to you, and thanks for sharing your opinion about Rainforest Writers Retreat!
Bonnie C.

]]> By: Henrik Storner http://pendorwright.com/2009/03/08/rainforest-writers-retreat-and-a-lack-of-self-discovery/comment-page-1/#comment-1338 Henrik Storner Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:34:59 +0000 http://pendorwright.com/?p=199#comment-1338 Your problem with gettings stories to the finish line might be more common than one would think. I tend to have a very similar problem, but in a quite different setting. I write open source software, so it is also done solely because I enjoy doing it, and just like You have lots of ideas for new stories, I have lots of interesting ideas for new add-ons and functionality for my software. Doing the first draft or prototype is easy - getting it "done" so it can be released can be really hard and usually takes a looooong time. And by the way, computer software also tends to improve upon a rewrite after the first enthusiastic prototype is done. I hope you do finish some stories. I probably look forward to reading your stories more than you would look forward to using my software :-) Your problem with gettings stories to the finish line might be more common than one would think. I tend to have a very similar problem, but in a quite different setting. I write open source software, so it is also done solely because I enjoy doing it, and just like You have lots of ideas for new stories, I have lots of interesting ideas for new add-ons and functionality for my software. Doing the first draft or prototype is easy – getting it “done” so it can be released can be really hard and usually takes a looooong time.

And by the way, computer software also tends to improve upon a rewrite after the first enthusiastic prototype is done.

I hope you do finish some stories. I probably look forward to reading your stories more than you would look forward to using my software :-)

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