Ahoy, matey! Have you been drifting at sea in search of writer island? Come ashore, grab a shovel and start digging. There's gold on that beachhead.

Here's what dwellers are saying about Writer Island:

"Thanks for this group. I've been more productive in the past four weeks than in the past 12 months. Have my play outline out for some feedback, and invited into an L.A. playwright's group. This feels GREAT."--Anne Lower

"I just finished my proposal today. THANK YOU, writer island! You guys
kept me accountable and moving forward on this story."--Rhonda Stapleton

"Seventeen more pages -- Yay! The island is keeping me going at a good
clip. I love this place! Must be something in the coconut juice." --Sandra Dehelen

Our rules are fun, fair and cutthroat:

1. By Sunday night midnight every week (Pacific time), you must post at least 15 pages of story material to our files section. You may post works-in-progress, plot brainstorms, edits, research notes or query letters and such. As a rule of thumb, one page = 250 words. If you're a writing a script, the word count will be less.

In all likelihood, no one in our group will read your pages unless they're initially curious and have oodles of free time. They'll soon lose these attributes as they try to eat your dust. If you're concerned about plagiarism or giving away your high concept idea, you can always scramble the words in your document with a few search-and-replace letter combinations.

2. Every Monday morning, our moderator will check to make sure your pages are in our files section, then will delete them. If your pages aren't there, you'll be booted off the island--no questions asked--for a week and will have to come rowing back on a makeshift raft. We'll welcome you back with open arms.