Too many authors never manage to find a group of writers in their real-life community. For these stranded scribes, GalleyCat discovered a virtual writers’ club that’s always looking for members.
Every Monday night in the virtual world of Second Life, author Joan Kremer (pictured, as her Second Life avatar) hosts a Writers Symposium within the computer-generated walls of the Story Mountain Center for Writers–a writing camp built in cyberspace. In case you’ve never visited, Second Life is a virtual world where computer users can customize an online persona and interact in a completely virtual environment.
Here’s more about the symposium, from the post about writers’ resources in the virtual world: “Writers gather around the fireplace on the main floor of the Story Mountain Lodge … They can share any form of written creative expression–from novels, to short stories, to memoir or other creative nonfiction, to poetry and even song lyrics–as long as it’s their original work…One at a time, writers read their work aloud, using voice chat.”