People keep asking, what the Hell is Write Club?
I tell them it’s a recipe. Write Club is a pressure cooker and a recipe.
Take eight human sacrifices, space monkeys, writers without an audience and add deadlines, add peer review, add the chance of publication. Add an unmanageable workload, a metric shit-tonne of pressure that builds and builds until the gasket begins to slip. Add purpose, add a reason to be at your desk everyday around the same time, and you’ll render off their best work.
Write Club is a sixteen-week long program. Think of it like cross-fit for authors. Imagine chiselled paragraphs. Think literary buns carved out of wood. Your words are going to bulge, bronze, and everyone’s going to notice.
We’re going to take eight human sacrifices, seven plus myself and put them in a program. Every two weeks we receive a prompt and write a short story, something publication length, 1,500 to 7,000 words. You have nine days to finish the story. You have four days to read and mark the others. One day to chill; get something to drink, find a member of the opposite sex, whatever. There are no leaders. No gods, no masters. Only the next week and the next prompt. When it’s all said and done, you’ll have eight stories to offer the publication Gods.
Get ready to become a shitty employee, a shut in, a bad parent. Lock your kids in the cupboard. They’ll be fine. Get ready to douse your social media presence with jet fuel and watch it burn. The dream is coming to the front burner, and for once, we’re going to become good at what we do.
This is your life, and it is ending one minute at a time
Deliver us from passive income. Deliver us from obsessive up-voting and clever comments. Deliver us from cheesy Fight Club references.
We’re on exodus from steemit, and we’re taking the fight to the publishing industry.
If this is something that sounds appealing, God help you. You are one of the cursed. One of God’s unwanted children. You’ve probably already written something with potential here on Steemit. You may have been SFT curated. You’ve probably been to The Writers Block, spending months in the pits of discord with the maniacs and the obsessives, subsisting off curation, critiques, and cockroaches.
If this is something that sounds appealing, chances are we know about you. We’ll send you an invite; we’ll be in touch.
And for those spectators watching from the shadows, we want you too. You’re going to vote your favourite author into Write Club. You’re going to watch authors self-immolate under the pressure. You’ll be watching history.
Stay tuned.
A list of nominees is on the way.
Disclaimer: While the Write Club is a very serious venture, this ad borrowed from Chuck Palahnuik's Fight Club. Think of it as a parody; or a tribute. Whatever works. If you haven't read the book for some reason, I suggest you do so.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons.