Writing Life Spring Write That Darn Bookcamp!

I was part of a great, supportive group. We cheered each other one. We posted support and commented on each other's post daily. I felt like a member of a team. It was wonderful.

Everybody in the thriller group dropped out. Someone was supposed to get back to me about moving to a new group, never did. I went on to work by myself

It started out well, but eventually everyone else fell by the wayside and I felt like I was writing all by myself, without the challenges and encouragement I had expected to get from the course. That said, I always work better when I have a deadline so I did manage to get more work done than I might have otherwise so, in that regard, it was a success. Would suggest though that the groups be bigger next time so when some members drop out of there are still a few who make it to the finish line together.

Love the bootcamps. Thank you RJ and everyone for making it happen. I didn't get 50,000 words, but I got over 30, 000. Happy writing Everyone.

This was my first year doing Bookcamp. I'd like to say I loved it as much as I love the classes, etc. However, even before the technical glitches, it just wasn't working well for me.

Here's some feedback for what it's worth.

1. When starting up - there were way too many threads going. It needs to be more streamlined so everyone can tell what's going on, especially those who are new to it. I really had a hard time figuring out what was going on and where.

2. Once started - there needs to be an easy way to tell where your group is. I wasted a lot of time just trying to figure this out.

3. There are still too many alternate threads once it got started. I ended up posting in the wrong spots twice which caused extra work for Lyn because she had to move them for me. There shouldn't be duplicate threads for the same thing or that look alike. And, if one is mistakenly made -- someone should delete the incorrect/extra one.

4. While I like the different aspects of the camp, it's just too much. If I had a job or small kids to take care of plus the writing -- there's no way I'd get anything else done. It was a struggle as it was. I'd prefer one place to list word counts. People can post their counts, along with comments, and questions and others can reply/encourage from there. All the extra -- if you have nothing else to do -- then that's great. But, the whole purpose of Camp NaNoWriMo is to get writing done. I struggled for a couple of weeks, mostly because everything was so confusing with so many different threads. I was interested in the camaraderie and encouragement/support to be given and received. The rest was - again - just too much clutter when it's hard enough just to get the words down daily.

Anyway - I know this has been going on for a long time before I came along and apparently others like all this. But, it just did not work for me. After I wasted a ton of time during the technical glitches, I finally gave up. I hated to let my teammates down, but I just couldn't keep trying to do things that I couldn't do.

I only gave it two stars instead of one, because of Lyn's encouragement and support. Without her, I'd have quit earlier.

Sorry.