Tuesday, May 5, 2009
What do you want from a Writing Group?
Seriously. What?
I know what I want, but it doesn't matter what I want. What's important is what you want. Do you want to write? Do you want to be critiqued? Do you want to participate? Do you want to rise to the challenge and produce your best work?
Or,
Would you rather flop lifelessly on your keyboard in defeat?
I've done both, and I have my own opinion on which is preferable.
Tonight is the second failure of my writing group to meet. :(
This could be an issue with my bodily odour or just bad timing and luck this spring. ;)
I'm actually not bent out of shape over it because I'm not the one being harmed here. With or without the insight and critique of the group members, the fact remains that I am still writing. That is one of my main goals with the writing group and it's working (for me at least). Now there is a new season upon us and a new member coming out next month. To dwell on the past is only useful if I'm writing my memoirs.
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Just want to be clear:
I like my group. I really want all of them to develop as writers and find value in the group. I don't see myself as better than them or without my own flaws.
I expected problems forming a writing group and getting it going. That's simple reality, so to be angry or upset with my groupmembers would be wrong.
In fact I hope my struggles to get a writing group going will be useful to others. That's why I write about them here.
Commitment to a writing group is something that can only come from within. The point of my above post is to point people in the right direction to find that commitment.
Now back to writing for me.
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