Lessons From Chuck

Anthology Project

venterminator — Fri, 13 May 2005 13:18:50 -0400

I have a question about this project: to be considered, must you submit in the homework area or the self assignment area, or does it matter?

I'd really like to put some stuff on the site that can be considered.

Fred Venturini

Printing the essays

chrismills — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:12:32 -0400

Hi,

I've just signed up for the essays and wanted to read them all from number one, so was intending to print them off. But it seems that they are set up in such a way that they cannot be copied and pasted into word, which is a nuisance. Other than a screen dump, does anyone know if there is a way of printing or exporting them?

Thanks

Chris

Chuck's Essay Re-caps?

Mr. Brown — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:43:51 -0400

I seem to remember Vig had made a re-cap section about the essays, that was on the old site. I've been browsing around here but can't seem to find them. Does anyone have a link? Thanks in advance.

sign your stories, in fact, format the page like youre going to submit it for publication wouldnt hurt either..

JKabol — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:00:51 -0400

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hey, yaw. hopefully i'll catch a few eyes here

im going through several workshopsubmissions, trying to print pages (i cant for critique read manuscripts off the screen)

there are a number of submissions that don't have names attached to them. literally, i have no idea whose stories some of them are..

if there is a fluke and submissions go through without names, which seems to be happening, please at least sign the pages you submit. give it a header, name and title (and even approx wordcount, which some of us started doing later on and is a nice addition)

here's an example of how to format your pages for workshopping:

http://chuckpalahniuk.net/workshop/read?type=t&id=437

hopefully that link ^^^^ will work for everyone

if not, i'll quickly write out an example:[/font]

[font=tahoma]Family L O V E

by johnathan.n.kabol

/!\ Topic for the french ones -> Traduction des "essays" en français

Petaire — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:52:57 -0500

Salut.

Je suis actuellement en train de traduire les essays de notre bon Chuck en français, aussi je me suis dit que je pourrais en faire profiter les français du site, je sais qu'ils sont nombreux. Si je les traduis, ce n'est pas pour "imposer" ma version, ou pour dénaturer son propos. J'essaie juste de propager ses idées en France, où il n'est franchement pas assez reconnu. Mais je voulais, avant de balancer la trad, savoir si au niveau légalité et au niveau du webmaster si ça posait un problème quelconque... Je viens de finir le numéro 3, et je m'attaque bientôt à celui de Guts. Je traduis aussi bien évidemment les Q&A.

Par ailleurs, si quelqu'un a envie de me filer un ptit coup de main, c'est pas de refus, c'est un boulot monstre...

Et si vous avez envie de les voir, un ptit MP ou un mail et je les file sans problèmes...

Clarion West Workshop

Asgenar — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:50:48 -0500

http://clarionwest.org/workshop/apply

Clarion West Workshop

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The 2008 Clarion West Workshop

The 2008 Clarion West Writers Workshop will be held June 22 through August 1 in Seattle, Washington. This intensive 6-week workshop will help prepare you for a professional career as a writer of speculative fiction.

Short fiction is the workshop's focus, with emphasis on science fiction, fantasy, and horror. You should come prepared to write several new stories during the course of the workshop, to experiment and take artistic risks, and to give and receive constructive criticism.

read more

Essay 25 Killing Time: Part One

Bateman — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:13:45 -0500

The chuckshop is back!

I really loved reading this essay. I think for the ones who already know all the previous 24 esays, a lot sounds familiar. But the new approach from pacing the plot is really fantastic. I loved it. It creates so much more depth to the stuff chuck already taught us.

I especially liked the different textures of narrative.

I just started this thread to jumpstart the workshop. How did you all feel about the new essay?

Greets,

Bateman

'New' Homework Assignment Submissions

danshewan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:03:50 -0400

Hey.

I'm Dan. As you can see from my post count, I'm a 'noob' to use the parlance of the interwebs.

I came across Chuck's essays about a week ago, and have been writing almost constantly since then. I've been working on my interpretations o

P.O.V. Mania: Exercising Discussion

JKabol — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:16:51 -0400

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He walks from the bar, beer in hand. He chooses a table at the center of the room and sits in a chair. He looks up. The room bathes in the dry light of fluoresc

until or if we get a writing theory forum going, grammar lessons here

JKabol — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:59:52 -0400

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this is the nitty-bitty, minutiae stuff and will probably bore most people to yawning tears..

I had just finished a post elsewhere and came across something in my last sentence. here are the last few sentences, and pay special note to th