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Week 4 posts / Final Draft - Exile
« on: August 29, 2020, 11:41:43 AM »
Many thanks to critique partners this round, Sara and Kim!
https://jeffrey-ricker.com/writer-in-motion-week-4-exile-second-critique-group-feedback/
https://jeffrey-ricker.com/writer-in-motion-week-4-exile-second-critique-group-feedback/
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Week 3 posts / Third draft: Exile (CP revisions)
« on: August 22, 2020, 07:28:30 PM »
I got such helpful feedback from my CPs (thanks, Ari and K. J.!). There's still work to do, but here it is: https://jeffrey-ricker.com/writer-in-motion-week-3-exile-critique-partners-feedback/
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Writer & Editor Bios / Jeffrey Ricker - SF, Fantasy, Contemporary, Usually Queer
« on: August 16, 2020, 10:03:27 PM »
Name: Jeffrey Ricker
Preferred Pronouns: He/Him
My short & boring bio: Jeffrey Ricker is the author of Detours (2011) and the YA fantasy The Unwanted (2014). His stories and essays have appeared in Foglifter, Phoebe, Little Fiction, The Citron Review, The Saturday Evening Post, and others. A 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow and recipient of a 2015 Vermont Studio Center residency, he has an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and teaches creative writing at Webster University.
What type of stories do you write?
I write mostly science fiction and fantasy, but have also been known to write contemporary fiction from time to time. Whatever it is, it usually has queer themes in it.
What are you working on right now?
I'm revising a near-future climate collapse novel about a farmer and her brother the astronaut who wants her to join him on the first interplanetary colonization mission. I describe it as Places in the Heart meets The Road, but somewhat more hopeful.
My Writer In Motion Project:
Exile
Published Books:
Detours
The Unwanted
Connect With Me:
Website
Twitter
Preferred Pronouns: He/Him
My short & boring bio: Jeffrey Ricker is the author of Detours (2011) and the YA fantasy The Unwanted (2014). His stories and essays have appeared in Foglifter, Phoebe, Little Fiction, The Citron Review, The Saturday Evening Post, and others. A 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow and recipient of a 2015 Vermont Studio Center residency, he has an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and teaches creative writing at Webster University.
What type of stories do you write?
I write mostly science fiction and fantasy, but have also been known to write contemporary fiction from time to time. Whatever it is, it usually has queer themes in it.
What are you working on right now?
I'm revising a near-future climate collapse novel about a farmer and her brother the astronaut who wants her to join him on the first interplanetary colonization mission. I describe it as Places in the Heart meets The Road, but somewhat more hopeful.
My Writer In Motion Project:
Exile
Published Books:
Detours
The Unwanted
Connect With Me:
Website
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Week 2 posts / Second draft self-edit: Exile
« on: August 15, 2020, 05:27:43 PM »
Thanks to Dan Koboldt's mention of Hemingway in his post, I somehow got my first draft from nearly 2,000 words down to 995 (or 957, depending on if you believe Hemingway or Word's count).
https://jeffrey-ricker.com/writer-in-motion-week-2-exile-self-edit/
https://jeffrey-ricker.com/writer-in-motion-week-2-exile-self-edit/
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Week 1 posts / Re: THE LIGHTHOUSE
« on: August 12, 2020, 01:08:41 AM »
Wow. This is just beautiful. I love the imagery and the language and the sense that this character has reached the end of his rope here. It's such a strong first draft that it'll be interesting to see how it changes.
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Week 1 posts / Re: First Draft: Exile
« on: August 09, 2020, 09:01:56 PM »This was great! I love how you wove in their past into the events, and I'm interested to see what you choose to cut!
Thanks! That's the tricky part.
However, it helps that I almost always over-write and can tighten things up a lot. So glad you enjoyed it!
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Week 1 posts / Re: First draft - untitled
« on: August 09, 2020, 01:16:04 AM »
Literal laugh-out-loud line: "Jesus help her, if he did another handstand, she would push him off of this mountain." Be careful what you wish for, eh?
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Week 1 posts / Re: First Draft: An Ill-Conceived Wish
« on: August 09, 2020, 01:08:27 AM »
Really liked the vivid sensory detail: the feeling of the grass beneath toes, the sounds of the insects, the smell of the grass. And getting a glimpse into your process via the colour coding is fantastic.
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Week 1 posts / Re: Beyond Earth
« on: August 09, 2020, 12:31:16 AM »
I love the description of the leader's words running "through my team like water over stone." It captures that way words have of feeling like a wave when they're repeated by many voices.
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Week 1 posts / First Draft: Exile
« on: August 08, 2020, 11:47:34 PM »
Whew! I signed up late and didn't get started writing until Thursday, so this is a) very rough and b) very much over length and c) very late. But, it's done.
https://jeffrey-ricker.com/writer-in-motion-week-1-exile/
Now I can't wait to check out other folks' work.
https://jeffrey-ricker.com/writer-in-motion-week-1-exile/
Now I can't wait to check out other folks' work.
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