Internet. You might form a Virtual Mutinous Crew using this book together via e-mail. But if it doesn’t work out, don’t feel cheated or defeated. You can attend many writing workshops led by famous writers or be a member of many peer groups and yet get no closer to finding your own voice as a writer than you might do working alone in silence. Ultimately — 6: 77-80
Since narrative is what this is all about, try to make each exercise not a static scene but the account of an act or action, something happening. It doesn’t have to be bang-pow “action”; it might be a journey down a supermarket aisle or some thoughts going on inside a head. What it has to do is move—end up in a different place from where it started. That’s what narrative does. It goes. It moves. Story is change. — 8: 103-106