Santa's Workshop

Becky "Sha" Shamen's explorations across Second Life took her to a Christmas-themed place: "Santa's Workshop." At this depiction of where St. Nick and his elves make their toys to give to children, there's much to see from the coal mine to Elf Comm Central to Elfementary school. And there's also a hunt where one can find up to twelve gifts from Santa to take home.

Read Becky's story in Places.

"Promptly Erotic" at Book Island

Grease Coakes is back with a story. In his article today, he writes about a recent trip to Book Island in which they had a new kind of event: "Promptly Erotic." Hosted by Freda Frostbite, the event is an exercise for those aspiring to write adult fiction. Grease attended the workshop, and even submitted a sample.

Read Grease's article in Events.

SL Poetry: "Script Help Workshop"

Give me your timers, your sensor,
Your muddled scripts yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your script folder.
Send these, the hopeless, error-filled to me,
I'll debug them on the Dockside Floor!

April Looming, Builders Brewery Instructor

Book Island Writing Workshops, Summer 2010

Sun block is expected in the summertime, writer’s block isn’t so welcome. Join author Diana Allandale (Diana Hunter in RL) for a series of writing workshops throughout the month of July designed to get your Muse out of the sun and back to work.

NOTE: All workshops are held at the Beach Area of Book Island (why should our Muses be the only ones getting a tan?) at 2:30 pm SLT.

You'll be writing and sharing at each workshop, although no formal critique will be given. This is really an opportunity to get some new ideas, play with some ideas and just have fun writing!

July 6th -- Developing strong characters

July 13th -- Doing more than just seeing the scene

July 20th -- Writing like we speak -- or -- Authenticity in dialogue -- or -- Say what?

July 27th -- Playing with characters

The above dates are scheduled but if something unforeseen should arise, a note will go out to both Diana’s Passionate Books group and to the Book Island events and discussion group, so be sure you're a member of one or both of those!

Who is Diana Hunter? She’s the author of twelve erotic romances and has been an active member of Second Life since October, 2006. You can learn more about Diana by visiting her website (www.dianahunter.net - warning not work safe) or her blog at www.dianahunter.blogspot.com.