Scrivener Hybrid Workshop July 9-30, 2020

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altspacevr, creative writing, creative writing meetup, hybrid workshop, Scrivener, workshop

I will be leading a hybrid workshop focused on Scrivener, a leading writing studio that will help you turn your writing from chaos to published.

The 4-week workshop will be hosted in AltspaceVR and on the Creative Writing Meetup in VR Discord server.

Thursdays, 9-11AM PST / 5-6PM UK, July 9-30

Participants will be learning about how to use Scrivener’s powerful features to research, write, structure, and edit their work from the beginning to finished manuscript ready for publishing in various formats from print to ebooks.

This course normally starts at USD $100 for the 8 hour workshop. As this is an experimental hybrid workshop, I’m suggesting USD $10 / 8 GBP or whatever you feel is appropriate.

• Once paid, contact me through DM (Lorelle#1596) or public post on our Creative Writing Meetup Discord.
• Provide your AltspaceVR Username (not display name, the one you log in with).
• I will add you to the private Scrivener Channel in our Discord and to the private events in AltspaceVR.
• To access the events in AltspaceVR in-world, go to Events > My Events. They should be listed there and open 3 minutes prior to the event.
• The private Scrivener Channel will feature a private voice channel as well for teaching that happens there.

How Will This Workshop Work?

For social and informational teaching, we will be meeting in AltspaceVR, typically no longer than an hour. The rest of the teaching will be on Discord with voice and text.

Links to articles, resources, and homework assignments will be there and here on this website.

While the workshop will be eight hours of education, the Discord private channel is open 24 hours a day, thus you may post questions there, successes, failures, screenshots, and other shares. Please help each other! It’s too easy for the teacher to just hand over the answers. If you see a question, answer it. It helps you and everyone learn better and faster.

• Scrivener overview and features
• Download Scrivener for Mac and Windows
• If you are brave, this is the link to download the beta Windows 3.0 version. The first, top post updates with the latest links even though it is dated different. The Release Candidate does not feature the Interactive Tutorial and has a short shelf-life before requiring installation of the new beta: Download Latest Release

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Isolation Memories

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This was a collaborative project by the Creative Writing Meetup group that meets weekly in AltspaceVR. The prompt was to share personal reflections about the recent COVID-19 self-isolation decisions, with some participants not yet isolating, and others already into their second or third week.

Everywhere is dead.
Access is different now.
Access to food, people, work, family.
Too little, too distant, too hard, too much.
Big city is empty. Village is bigger and emptier.
Streets are empty.
I hear birds not traffic.
I wander, helpless.
I’m lost.

There is a shift from normal.
A new normal.
Watching this happen far from me
Drawing closer and closer
To work, to home, to life.
This is something that happens
To other people not me.
I didn’t believe.
I didn’t listen.
It is. Happening.
It is happening to me.

We are adapting, or are we?
Normality drifts away.
A new normality replaces it.
You barely notice the shift
As life changes around us.
Plans cancelled. Life on hold.
I didn’t prepare.
Shortages are my loss.
I order take out.
I call two hours later.
It was delivered an hour ago.
I tighten my belt.

We live together, yet apart.
One person living alone.
Nine people living alone.
Who is safe? Where is everyone?
Everyone is alone.
Everyone is together.
I feel alone.
I feel left out.
I feel forgotten.
Misplaced.

There is a deterioration of routine.
The schedule is falling apart.
Times, days, weeks fall off the calendar.
Scattered. Lost.
I’ve lost my purpose, my senses.
I have more time than
I remember ever having
Yet I don’t know what to do with myself.

My life is not mine any more.
My life is no more.
I don’t know who I am.
I am missing.
I am a robot.
I am blind.
No emotion.
I need guidance.
Everything I ever knew and was
Gone out the window.

My perspective has changed.
The virus is a mirror
I didn’t expect to look into.
It’s changed who I was.
It’s changed who I am.
I am becoming
Different
Yet the same
Facing my new reflection.