On Mondays, Wednesdays(?) and Fridays at 2:00 PM our time (1:00 PM Second Life Time), writers gather to animate their avatars about various writing tasks, talk with each other about writing and current works in progress, and just let the noise of the typewriters motivate them to keep the words flowing.
The Milk Wood Gypsy Camp - Milk Wood Writers, Awen (164, 32, 21)
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Awen/156/66/2
Associated Groups: "Writers Guild"
(To join a group: Use SL's "search" interface, choose the "groups" tab, and enter the name of the group you want. Click the search result link and then the "View Full Profile" button to pull up the group's info. Click the "Join (L$0)" button.)
Picnic tables in a lovely forest clearing are furnished with various writing and reading implements. Right-click a typewriter and choose "Type!" to sit at it and type. Right-click a sheaf of paper and choose "Write!" for the longhand animation; there will be an object nearby that will give you a pen to "wear" if you click it. You can click another object to receive a small book, then "wear" it and use the "Read!" animation to sit and read.
It's just a very pleasant place to be, to chat with other writers, and to use the oddly effective energy of the animations to motivate yourself to write in "real life."
I really recommend joining the Writers Guild if you're a writer and you frequent Second Life. They are constantly sending the group event notices: open mics, poetry workshops, readings given by published and aspiring authors. And of course this: write-ins at Milk Wood on Mondays and Fridays for sure, maybe on Wednesdays too, at 2:00 PM Mountain Time (1:00 PM SLT). Perhaps I will see you there today!
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