Canada - - British Columbia

[STICKY] Virtual Write-in times and location

belphebe — Thu, 3 Apr 2008 20:53:55 -0700

This message has been posted to the British Columbia forum and the British Columbia-Vancouver forum, so you may see it more than once.

Thanks to one of the other Municipal Liasions, karalianne, we have a chat room for British Columbia. There are not currently separate chat rooms for different cities, but if there is a lot of use or demand, I can see about getting subdomains set up.

The first official chat will be on Sunday, April 6, from 8 to 10pm. I may be online Friday or Saturday evening (during April, Script Frenzy IS my weekend party destination! :-) ) around the same time, but I am not sure if other people will be around. You are certainly welcome to use the chat room at other times, if you happen to be online anyway.

The chat rooms are all-ages friendly, so please keep discussions clean.

People can join or leave the chat at any time. For April 6th, I'll designate the first 15 minutes or so as meet and greet time, where people can check in and say hello. Then, I'll set a timer for a half-hour "word war" ("page war"). At that time, your main focus should be on adding information to your script. People can still comment in the chat, or they can chat if they wish, but don't be surprised if you don't get a response from anyone else.

At the end of the half-hour, I'll announce that time is up, and people can compare how much progress they've made. It is completely up to each person how much information to share with other participants. YOu can simply say that you are happy with what you accomplished during that time, or not happy, if that is the case.

We'll have a 15-minute break, and then start another half-hour writing session.

I hope to "see" people on Sunday.

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Inez
ML for British Columbia

Canada - - British Columbia

Victoria.

Master Radishes — Sun, 9 Mar 2008 21:30:12 -0700

Any other Screnziers from Victoria? Anyone? At all?

Or, you know, anyone from non-Vancouver BC. Our forum is a little empty...

Canada - - British Columbia

Virtual chat/write-in, Saturday April 26, 8pm

belphebe — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:03:18 -0700

I have another commitment on Sunday, so I will host a Virtual chat on Saturday night, and another one on Monday night.

For the virtual write-in, people can connect at around 8pm, we'll chat for a bit and then write for about 30 minutes. Unfortunately, everyone is going to have to time themselves, because the chat times out after about 5 minutes of inactivity. After the 30 minutes, we can chat for a bit, and then back to writing.

The chatroom is at the following location:
http://chatnano.net/tempchats/bc.html

Keep writing!

Inez

Canada - - British Columbia

How are people doing?

belphebe — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:21:25 -0700

I'm sorry I haven't been more vocal in the forums. I've gotten a little behind on my script and now I have to play catch up. I know that I can do it. I just have to buckle down and work.

How about you? People still hanging in there, still adding pages?

I'll be hosting another virtual chat on Sunday evening if people are interested in checking it out. I'll probably be online Saturday evening too, from about 8pm until 10 at least.

Good luck everyone!

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Inez
ML for British Columbia

Canada - - British Columbia

virtual write-ins

belphebe — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:25:51 -0700

For those that don't know, a "write-in" is a gathering of people that want to have support while they write. We meet at some place, write for about half an hour or so, take a little break to chat, and then get back to writing.

In a "region" the size of the province, it is impossible for all participants to meet in person, even if we could co-ordinate a time that was suitable for all participants. So, this year I'm going to try virtual write-ins.

Virtual write-ins are generally run from a chat room. I haven't sponsored one of these before, but I've participated in "word wars" online and I think this would be similar. People join the chat and talk for a bit, and then a time-limit is set and you start working on your script. You can still respond to chat messages, maybe posting your progress periodically (much easier to do when we were counting words, not pages!), or asking for advice on something.

I still have to finalize the details for a virtual write-in. If I do get it set up, the virtual write-in may be on a weeknight (8-10pm), perhaps with another on the weekend, if people are interested.

If you prefer in-person write-ins and you know someone else in your area that is participating, you are welcome to set something up for yourselves and meet and work on your scripts. Send me a FrenzyMail so that I can add your event to the Event calendar.

I'll provide updates when I have more information.

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Inez
ML for BC

Canada - - British Columbia

Nanaimo

gr33n_sl33ves — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:46:56 -0700

So... Is there anyone else here from ye ol' Nanaimo?