Freda's Place

  RECURRING EVENTS Mondays-Thursdays at 9 AM SLT:  Open Write-Ins at The Bellesmere Inn.   An hour or more for getting the work done in the supportive but silent company of other writers.   http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Relax/127/102/24 Mondays at 11 AM SLT:  Guided Meditation With Music at The Harmony Zendo above Bellesmere Spend 15-30 minutes getting calm, realxing your body and mind.  The meditation will be in local voice with music on the region stream.   http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Relax/20/99/1505 Tuesdays at 11 AM SLT: Chit-Chat at The Rendezvous Cafe, Bellesmere In Character RP.  Visitors always welcome. (In local text.) http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Relax/65/107/24 Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:30 PM SLT:  Belles Dancers Rehearsals @ The Belles Theater.   The Belles Dancers are beginning work on their Valentines Weekend show,  Ballet Romance.   They are seeking new dancer...

Wednesday at 11:30 AM SLT Book Talk:  Tell us about your most recent read! (Discussion) Read any good books lately?  Have you thrown any at the wall?  What did you love?  What did you hate? Join us by the fire at Freda's where we'll talk books for part of an hour.  All welcome. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Minarlo%20Vite/143/123/97 Wednesday at 12:30 PM SLT Writer's Activity: 642 Things To Write About Join us Wednesdays at 12:30 PM as we make our way through the writing prompts in "642 Things To Write About"  by 826Valencia. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Minarlo%20Vite/143/123/97 Thursday at 11:30 AM SLT Creative Writers, Artists, Musicians Chat (Discussion) Artists of various types, from graphic designers to inworld builders to first life ballerinas, share a lot of common experience.  Let's get together and chat about life as artists inworld and out.  All welcome. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Minarl...

Join us weekly as we make our way through the writing prompts in "642 Things To Write About"  by 826Valencia. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Quoll/70/49/97

January 2, 2015   The new year has started well -- organized and productive, just as I envisioned.  The trick will be maintaining this newly established routine.  The routine of which I speak is one that allows me to use Second Life and Inworldz and other virtual worlds as vehicles for doing my first life work, one that gives me the freedom to be inworld as needed and not when not.    In virtual worlds, I am learning to say no rather more quickly than I am inclined to say yes.  That is a lesson I learned ages ago in my first life.  I figured somewhere along about 1987 that it is much easier to say no and then change one's mind than to say yes and have to renig on promises made.    For some reason, that reality was not immediately apparent to me in virtual settings.  Maybe it's because what we do in virtual worlds is ALWAYS optional, so saying yes to requests for my time, talent, and input seemed not quite so real as...

New Year, New Habit (Quiet Write-in) It is so easy to let our eyes stray from the ball.  For me, the ball is writing.  For lots of you, it is too.  Let's start 2015 off productively.  New Year, New Habit will be a month-long event that will allow us time and space for writing together daily in supportive silence.  If it works for a number of people, we'll run it again in February.  I will be in my office daily at 4:30 a.m. slt and will stay until 6:30.  I'll spend that two hours writing and will be glad to have you join me daily or whenever you can.   Feel free to IM here or inworld with questions. 

Image from WT at www.openclipart.org There are days when I wonder why I call myself a writer.  It seems I spend so much of my time on the other parts of my job that writing is the least of it.  It's easy to get sucked into the editing, proofreading, recording things I've written, making illustrations, doing the PR necessary to sell my work, meeting and talking with other writers, blogging about writing (ironic I should mention that one here, huh?), book layout, planning work sessions-- well, you get it -- the list of writing-related tasks that distract from actual writing is about a paragraph long.  Lately,   I have  had a string of days where writing has gotten short-shrift, if it has happened at all.    There are also times when my whole writing life is derailed by some mundane thing, like a holiday (when people are home and in my space and when I am expected not to work) or a doctor's appointment (which is supposed to take an hou...