Welcome… I’m New Here! Greetings and Salutations from Seattle!

[rjeffrey]

My name is Robin Jeffrey and it is a pleasure to join you all here at Litopia! I am a dedicated author who enjoys all the usual pleasure: spending time with friends while playing Dungeons and Dragons, listening to music, watching television, reading anything I can get my hands on, and planning the occasional murder -- fictional of course! I love reading mysteries, fantasy, horror, literary fiction, magical realism, just about anything as long as it's written well.

No genre is safe from my pen; tropes, prepare to be turned inside out. I love genre bending and blending, as evidenced by my two self-published books, .exe and R.A.T., both scifi murder mysteries. I also love writing flash fiction, flash nonfictions, and short essay. I'm querying two other novels at the moment, one an Urban Fantasy and one a Sapphic Romantic Suspense.

Physically I'm located about an hour's ferry ride from Seattle, WA, where I live with my husband and our out-of-control comic book collection. I love connecting with folx and am really looking forward to growing a community here!

 

[Matthew WP]

I'm new as well, so greetings from another wet-behind-the-ears Litopian!

I have flirted with LGBTQ+ themes in my scifi writing with some success. Do you have anything in development that you would be willing to trade passages over?

 

[CarolMS]

Hi Robin! How nice to have another Pacific Northwester in the Colony. I'm fairly new, too (just recently joined, then upgraded). I notice you say you are about an hour from Seattle by ferry. Do you live on one of the San Juan Islands? I just LOVE those islands and ferrying about amidst them. So beautiful! Seems like the perfect place to write!

 

[Vagabond Heart]

Hi Robin, and welcome.
I'm sure you'll fit right in here. We have several new people who've joined recently, which is a real pleasure for us. If you have any questions, just ask.
xxx VH

 

[Jonny]

A very warm welcome to the colony, Robin.

Nice to have you here. Hope you enjoy Litopia and do get involved as soon as you’re ready to.

This is a good place to check out (How-to guide) to see a lot of what goes on in the colony.

If anything is unclear do please contact me and I’ll be happy to assist if I can.

@rjeffrey

 

[rjeffrey]

I'm new as well, so greetings from another wet-behind-the-ears Litopian!

I have flirted with LGBTQ+ themes in my scifi writing with some success. Do you have anything in development that you would be willing to trade passages over?

Absolutely! That sounds very exciting -- I'd love to swap. If I'm understanding the way the colony works, the workshops section might be the best place for that, yes?

 

[rjeffrey]

Hi Robin! How nice to have another Pacific Northwester in the Colony. I'm fairly new, too (just recently joined, then upgraded). I notice you say you are about an hour from Seattle by ferry. Do you live on one of the San Juan Islands? I just LOVE those islands and ferrying about amidst them. So beautiful! Seems like the perfect place to write!

Ah, I wish I lived on the Islands! I'm actually over on the Peninsula - in Bremerton. It's usually lovely, though we are getting a fair bit of snow at the moment (still lovely, but no fun to drive in!)

 

[rjeffrey]

Hi Robin, and welcome.
I'm sure you'll fit right in here. We have several new people who've joined recently, which is a real pleasure for us. If you have any questions, just ask.
xxx VH

Will do, thank you so much for the warm welcome!

 

[rjeffrey]

A very warm welcome to the colony, Robin.

Nice to have you here. Hope you enjoy Litopia and do get involved as soon as you’re ready to.

This is a good place to check out (How-to guide) to see a lot of what goes on in the colony.

If anything is unclear do please contact me and I’ll be happy to assist if I can.

@rjeffrey

Thank you so much @Jonny! I will be sure to reach out if I have any questions -- there's so much to explore, I'm very excited to dig in.

 

[Vagabond Heart]

Absolutely! That sounds very exciting -- I'd love to swap. If I'm understanding the way the colony works, the workshops section might be the best place for that, yes?

Hi again,

How great to see two new people so ready and willing to share their work.
And yes, the Writing Workshop is the place.
But rather than just do a ‘you read mine and I’ll read yours’, may I make a suggestion?
That you put the work you want feedback on in the workshop, and then let people offer their opinions as they come to it?
The thing is, getting feedback from four or five people is generally more useful than getting it from only one.
One benefit, for instance, is that you get to see if the things you’re getting comments on are across the board, or just one person’s preferences.
Over time, you’ll also learn whose feedback works best for you, and you can invite selected groups of people to be Beta readers, or help you with your blurb, etc.
Oh, and one more thing: we often don’t do straight swaps here because of time/convenience issues. If one is heavily involved in the writing of one’s own work, one generally isn’t that available to put a great deal of attention on someone else’s work. But those who’ve put their own work on hold, in order to get distance and perspective, are quite free to look at others works.
Hope this is useful info for you.
Xxx VH

 

[izi 出久]

Welcome, Robin! I live on the east coast, but seem to be making my way out west more frequently post the-year-that-shall-not-be-named. This is a friendly space

 

[Matthew WP]

Absolutely! That sounds very exciting -- I'd love to swap. If I'm understanding the way the colony works, the workshops section might be the best place for that, yes?

Yes indeed. I'll cure up the section and tag you

 

[Matthew WP]

Hi again,

How great to see two new people so ready and willing to share their work.
And yes, the Writing Workshop is the place.
But rather than just do a ‘you read mine and I’ll read yours’, may I make a suggestion?
That you put the work you want feedback on in the workshop, and then let people offer their opinions as they come to it?
The thing is, getting feedback from four or five people is generally more useful than getting it from only one.
One benefit, for instance, is that you get to see if the things you’re getting comments on are across the board, or just one person’s preferences.
Over time, you’ll also learn whose feedback works best for you, and you can invite selected groups of people to be Beta readers, or help you with your blurb, etc.
Oh, and one more thing: we often don’t do straight swaps here because of time/convenience issues. If one is heavily involved in the writing of one’s own work, one generally isn’t that available to put a great deal of attention on someone else’s work. But those who’ve put their own work on hold, in order to get distance and perspective, are quite free to look at others works.
Hope this is useful info for you.
Xxx VH

Yes, thank you that is helpful.

Learning the conventions here. On other pages it is customary to offer swaps. Either works.

This seems to be a place where there is more effective interaction, so I'm well please thus far!

 

[Matthew WP]

Absolutely! That sounds very exciting -- I'd love to swap. If I'm understanding the way the colony works, the workshops section might be the best place for that, yes?

Right, a clip is up under "Science Fiction - Sapphic Attraction & Arousal - Technique & Description appropriate?"

 

[RK Wallis]

Welcome aboard @rjeffrey Jump right in.

 

[Peyton Stafford]

Welcome. I look forward to reading your work.