After Ann's presentation, the main topic at Thursday night's general meeting was critique groups.
Barb has gotten requests to get our membership list up on the website so members can try to connect and form small critiquing groups that meet more often than our scheduled groups.
This is especially needed where writers have entire novels for which they need feedback. It just doesn't work to meet once (or even twice) a month with a group that may not be composed of the same people from meeting to meeting.
Our critique groups work great for short stories, but not for critiquing novels.
In any event, I spent the entire day today - about twelve hours - on LWS work. I put up a "Membership Portal" page, created a mock Membership List page, created a template for the password protection page, and added the extra button to all the other pages on our website (as well as updating the News & Notes page.)
So the foundation is now laid to create at least two password protected membership areas: the membership list and a critique forum. (Any number of links to restricted areas can be placed on this new page without my having to "reinvent the wheel" each time by putting another button on every page.)
I've put out a call to the LWS membership to e-mail digital photos of themselves for inclusion in the restricted area. LWS is growing and it would be nice if our members could get to know each other, at least through visual recognition.
We'll see how many come in. Lots, I hope.
Bed Time!
Barb has gotten requests to get our membership list up on the website so members can try to connect and form small critiquing groups that meet more often than our scheduled groups.
This is especially needed where writers have entire novels for which they need feedback. It just doesn't work to meet once (or even twice) a month with a group that may not be composed of the same people from meeting to meeting.
Our critique groups work great for short stories, but not for critiquing novels.
In any event, I spent the entire day today - about twelve hours - on LWS work. I put up a "Membership Portal" page, created a mock Membership List page, created a template for the password protection page, and added the extra button to all the other pages on our website (as well as updating the News & Notes page.)
So the foundation is now laid to create at least two password protected membership areas: the membership list and a critique forum. (Any number of links to restricted areas can be placed on this new page without my having to "reinvent the wheel" each time by putting another button on every page.)
I've put out a call to the LWS membership to e-mail digital photos of themselves for inclusion in the restricted area. LWS is growing and it would be nice if our members could get to know each other, at least through visual recognition.
We'll see how many come in. Lots, I hope.
Bed Time!
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