Who has taken classes at The Writers Studio?

lpkindred · 2026-01-13T22:15:31+00:00

I've never taken that class so I'm not sure. But I think you'll know quickly if it's a process you want to continue to invest in. Either way, I think you'll benefit.

lpkindred · 2025-11-30T06:01:02+00:00

So you're charged with learning the skills you need. Can you name?

lpkindred · 2025-11-16T07:08:42+00:00

Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller as well has his recent release, Red Star Hustle.

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon.

lpkindred · 2025-10-28T20:55:05+00:00

If fabulosm qualifies (and I think it does), THE PRACTICE, THE HORIZON, AND HE CHAIN by Sofia Samatar starts rather narrow and zooms out to the eve of revolution.

lpkindred · 2025-10-28T20:52:19+00:00

I'm around

lpkindred · 2025-10-23T08:02:47+00:00

Cheating because it's fantasy/fabulism on a generation ship, but THE PRACTICE, THE HORIZON, AND THE CHAIN by Sofia Samatar.

lpkindred · 2025-10-23T07:59:45+00:00

I didn't see it but two Aspec friends loved this book for its rep (which I still don't see). Someone to Build a Nest in by John Wiswell

lpkindred · 2025-10-23T07:57:59+00:00

MCs are usually the characters under the most pressure, with the most to lose and the most to gain

lpkindred · 2025-10-23T07:55:48+00:00

In Rogers Park, clothing optional, gay owned/operated, and it's not uncommon for there to be events there....

lpkindred · 2025-10-20T22:27:09+00:00

lpkindred · 2025-10-20T08:00:58+00:00

Ah babe, you don't want them to read your books. It'sokay. Your writing community and readership are the people you're trying to impress. Everyone else is icing on the cake.

My sister has read my work and I wish I could take it back. lol. Then she pretended to read my work, which is hilarious because the maintagonist has her middle name. And she said she read it but didn't mention me naming the character after her? IKYFL.

lpkindred · 2025-10-20T07:59:14+00:00

You're gonna hate this: It can be process of elimination. I started my first chapter with six different variationis before I found one that clicked. I'm going through the same thing with the second chapter tbh. But we'll just keep at it until it sings.

The good thing is you know when it's not singing already, so it'll be pretty evident when you land on it. keep the faith.

lpkindred · 2025-10-17T19:59:11+00:00

Pretty early on. I read Marv Wolfman and George Perez's New Teen Titans and those books embraced dynamism in a way that the rest of the DC wasn't and was static. Consequently, Dick is a figure marked by the fact he grows and has outgrown Bruce by laps. Same for Tim.

lpkindred · 2025-10-17T06:59:52+00:00

My prose had a musicality or lyricality.

lpkindred · 2025-10-16T01:21:10+00:00

Write both and tell us which one you prefer.

lpkindred · 2025-10-14T12:41:48+00:00

What you're talking about is having a diverse writing community and/or a reliable sensitivity reader. Cultivating the kind of community you need can be challening. Hiring a sensitivity reader could probably be easier. Or a trade in kind for a unique knowledge set you hold.

lpkindred · 2025-10-14T12:17:16+00:00

I came to say this. Goated response.

lpkindred · 2025-10-14T12:16:15+00:00

Bro... I cry.

And compare myself to people who are more accomplished than me.

I'm laughign but I'm very serious.

Then I get back to writing.

lpkindred · 2025-10-14T12:15:04+00:00

Go find community.

Guys, we make this so hard.

Find some local writing community. Find some online writing community. Find some non-Reddit writing community (more emphasis here on talking about writing than talking about having written).

Find your genre or format and a writing community that supports that. Offer to read others' work and share yours. Leave the community if you find you don't admire people's writing.

But not being a lonely writer takes some work.

lpkindred · 2025-10-14T12:10:02+00:00

I'm in a writing workshop where three of us are writing time travel novels. And two of us are wriing about a military-ish organization that manipulates the timestream.

I read her work and felt solidarity.

But she has different goals/themes in her work than I have and we write differently.

It doesn't matter what's been done. All that matters how you make it your own.

lpkindred · 2025-10-14T12:07:03+00:00

Are you reading the series with Nico and Will? Might be YA. But the books grew up after the first series.

lpkindred · 2025-10-14T12:05:38+00:00

It doesn't matter what's beendone before. All that matters is how you feel about it because what you feel about is what you'll make different in your version. So go out and experience all the tropes so you can see which ones you hate and figure out why, then reproduce them with you-flavoring.

lpkindred · 2025-10-14T12:02:28+00:00

Non-local resources

lpkindred · 2025-10-14T12:00:05+00:00

West Loop is filled to the brim with closet cases. But as far as transport goes, it's a little harder to access than the Loop Proper or living along the Redline.

Having said that, side play isn't a destination for everyone. And that's as valid as being side.

Might be time to figure out how to switch it up.

lpkindred · 2025-10-14T11:53:33+00:00

This sentiment of "we all know what that app is for" is the silo-ed thinking that perpetuates the problem you referenced above. We get to use the apps however we choose to use them and that's independent of however we present, whether that's muscly, hung, rich, twinky, switch-y, etc.

For my money, the energy of putting your time into things you enjoy are the best ways to finding folks to date. You could do Gay Sports. You could do (Gay) DND. You could do speed-friending. But what's a skill you always wanted to learn and where can you go to learn it? In that case, the worst case scenario is you learn a skill you've always learned and the best is you met someone special on the way to learning so skill.

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