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

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

"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

Our rules are fun, fair and challenging:

1. By Sunday midnight every week (Pacific time), you'll need to report to our Yahoo group that you've produced at least fifteen creative "units". A unit can be a page or an hour spent getting your writing projects into the world, whether they're personal or professional, mainstream or indie.

2. A page or an hour might consist of brainstorms, edits, blog posts, reports, writing-job applications, ad copy, tweets, research notes that are cut and pasted from the Internet, book pages you've read or any other activities related to getting and keeping your work in the world.

2. Every Monday morning, our moderator will check to make sure you've reported your "units". If you're unable to make the minimum count, you'll be booted off the island for a week and will have to come rowing back on a makeshift raft. We'll welcome you back with open arms.

3. If you'd like feedback on your written work, feel free to put out a general call to the group (which we'll keep small, with no more than twenty members), and then keep the exchange of documents and feedback via private email. That way, if one of our member's work leaks out somewhere someday, at least we know it wasn't through our group as a whole.

Welcome to the island! We hope you'll join us.