Anyone local I've tried to snag, for the writing workshops we have here at Secret Hideout Studio every other Friday, is welcome to help us get a YahooGroup going for online discussion.
We'd talked about moving the workshop, mainly my own overzealous nature trying to accomodate a loved one. But this is more practical, and doesn't cut into Saturdays in the spring.
Not everyone is on Facebook, so it's gotta be Yahoo or a similar discussion group for a while. I am open to ideas.
By way of introduction, for the new folks, my name's Edward Morris. I've been writing speculative fiction professionally since 2002, making about as much money at it as I do co-running Secret Hideout Studio in the Hawthorne district. My Serena and I do what we do for different reasons.
Like how you only get one chance, and the good you do lives after you. Like how you find yourself convulsing on a stretcher with a lung full of blood... and what you do saves you. Then and there. When I collapsed a lung last November, I swore that when I got out I'd quit screwing around and start the workshop I'd wanted to steward my whole young life. Here we are.
I'll let others introduce themselves. To the core group: I've blurbed most of you monkeys already. You don't get off that light. You too. Again, this is just a placeholder, and the message board will be settled on soon enough.
Namaste, and welcome to the Island. :)
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I'm a renaissance jerk who lives between a Starbuck's and a golf course's asshole. I'm the author of MEL, Antipaladin Blues, 10 A BOOT STOMPING 20 A HUMAN FACE 30 GOTO 10, as well as various scattered shorts and poetry. I am douchebag in residence at Crappy Indie Music: The Blog, where I write music criticism, interview famousish people, and try to convince Colin Meloy to kill himself. I've done art for the Portland Buddhist Priory and a coupla Vandermeer projects. I make music under the name Coeur Machant (with various beautiful and scary ladies, including my 2-year-old daughter)and DJ Falsifier, as well as scoring under my own name. Since I believe in plowing wide, not deep, you are probably better than me at most of these things. Except lovemaking, because I am seriously a fucking demigod. Just ask my wife. I am an iconoclastic Zen Buddhist who knows when to be a dick and when not to. Except when I do the opposite. Edward Morris is my lucky charm, and it is an honor to be in this group because it is like bathing in habanero-infused honey.
My name is Steven McGuire, I am the newer writer to the group. I have been working with Ed now for about 6 months and was invited to be one of the group members. It has been a great learning experience. Money can't pay for the knowledge in the room. I write mostly Horror. I have had a colorful life and fill my pages with the darkness that has filled mine. I write, write music, love to read and look forward to meeting and working with everyone. You can find me on this blog space as mydarkroom489.
www.mydarkroom489.blogspot.com
Oh, sure. Once again, all the cool kids are in Portland, OR. The rest of us are left out in the cold. I'll go crawl back under my rock now.
Oi, DED, none of that. There is room for all in my army. I will send you an invite to the Online group. (whistles Gabriel's "Shaking The Tree")
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