This Sunday's Second Life Event

Last week I mentioned that I’d become involved in Second Life. A bunch of you have come and visited. It’s been great fun meeting you all, and I’m looking forward at meeting more of you. Kat Alderson, my partner at ThirdLife, and I are working hard at putting together a bunch of programs and setting up writing groups through ThirdLife, so there would be plenty of stuff to do.

Sunday 13 January at 5 PM Eastern Standard Time/2 PM Second Life Time, I’ll be offering the first of a number of classes at Wordsmith Hall, the castle at the ThirdLife Bookstore and Grounds in Second Life. The class is titled, “Writer’s Groups: Making them work for you.” The course will be offered there on Sunday, and a couple other places in Second Life, TBA. The goal is to get folks together to form 6-8 person writing groups to mutually support and develop each other’s talent.

In a previous post, now corrected, I’d listed the date as Sunday the 12th. It’s Sunday the 13th.

Second Life, for those who have never chatted online, is a graphical chat interface. It does not cost money to register or use. It operates on a “micro-economy” model, which is to say that you can uses it for free, but you can do a lot more if you just pay a little more here and there. I sell books in Second Life to cover the costs of promoting my work and having the space to hold seminars. Lots of other wildly creative people turn out really cool products to feed their habits, too.

If you hit the link above, download the software and head into Second Life, you can find me by searching for “Noble Charron.” That’s the name of my alter-ego in the world of SL. You can find the bookstore by searching on books, or ThirdLife, or clicking on this convenient link, which will take you directly there. When you arrive, please click on the sign at the front of the store, so you can be added to the ThirdLife group, so I can get you announcements about things we will be doing.

I’ll post more about classes and workshops as they come around.

I’m very excited about all that can be done online, and I’m hoping you’ll join me taking this step forward into a wondrous future.