Posts Tagged ‘ community ’

What Is A Writing Community, Anyway?

February 27, 2010

Now I don’t mean to go off on some tear here, but I notice that there is some genuine confusion about this question and it comes up a lot. Every “community” seems to wrestle with certain questions, and every community gets to a point where they must defend against the inevitable accusations on cliques, transparency, bias, self promotion. There will always be somebody out there, it seems, who feels put out in some kind of way by a community or hasn’t gotten the response or attention or comments or welcome they wanted. What happens when people walk away from a community, dissatisfied? People will, that’s the way it is. Can’t please everyone, particularly when part of the burden is on the individual to make their own way in a given group.…

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Welcome To The New OW

December 10, 2008

OW is changing. But we hope it will be for the better!

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