More Writing Exercises Would Amplify Creativity

[filthytrancendence]

Does that make any sense to anyone besides me?

Sure. Sounds like a workshop kind of thing, but I feel like it would be confusing to keep that kind of conversation on track with multiple submissions in the same vein of the Rip Me To Shreds thread. I would think you'd get more digressive, collaborative responses to that kind of request, like we saw in @AG31's thread today.

But I also get that the prospect of making your own thread starting that kind of workshop might be daunting, and the semi-anonymity of the group threads is part of the appeal of them.

If you have something specific in mind, I'd be happy to do that with you in DMs, if you want. No pressure, just an offer.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Ohh, hey, how about The Dangle?

Do you know The Dangle? Sort of fetishy thing I guess. It can be completely innocent with the wearer almost unaware they're doing it. Or it can be a deliberate act of enticement and seduction.

What is The Dangle? When the wearer lets a spike heel shoe 'dangle' off the foot while sitting in a chair, at a desk, or on a bar stool. Most of the pictures out there are really overly staged. This one is probably staged also, but it seems more natural.

https://bodylanguageproject.com/non...eProjectCom-Shoe-Play-or-Removing-Shoes-2.jpg

 

[TheRedLantern]

Sure. Sounds like a workshop kind of thing, but I feel like it would be confusing to keep that kind of conversation on track with multiple submissions in the same vein of the Rip Me To Shreds thread. I would think you'd get more digressive, collaborative responses to that kind of request, like we saw in @AG31's thread today.

For posterity's sake, I tried this and found it to be very successful. I posted the first about 280 words of a 6K-ish length story. By the second post, a major weakness had been exposed, a very fixable one but one of those bugs that would have been tough for me to catch on my own but was totally obvious to fresh eyes. I had a few questions on my mind about various parts, and someone touched on each one of them.

I did it based on my experience at the Gotham Writer's workshops in NYC. Every week, three people in the class submit work for critique and everyone else reviews it for impact (not usually line level stuff, that's on the original author to do). The author is not allowed to comment, so you learn to sit back and let the initial "they just didn't understand" knee-jerk emotional reaction pass and get a sense of what the other writers are trying to tell you.

Overall, 10/10, will keep doing until you guys get tired of it. Every response was worthwhile. I also agree with @filthytrancendence that one thread per piece being workshopped is ideal. It would have been tough to have kept more than one train of thought separate.