Ever wonder about critique groups, writing groups, and such? The reality is this: if you want your writing to improve, you need impartial readers giving you honest feedback. You need people who understand something about what you write--your genre, your style, your target audience, etc. People who know the difference between a broadsword and the broad side of a barn. That's assuming there still are barns where you live.
Anyway, the point is that I have received some awesome feedback from folks from my bootcamp at Storymakers. These people are good.
But I've also joined another writing critique group online. That group has some excellent contributors, but my reality is that I just don't have the time that they do. I'll see anywhere from 15-25 posts a day. And there are a lot of people on this critique group. And they have a lot to contribute.
That's the problem. I want to be a part of the group, but my life is just prohibitively busy. Work, family, church, attempting to edit and write my own things. I think maybe I need a smaller group, I think. One with as much fire and gusto, but not quite so much happening that I feel broadsided. By the barn, not the sword.
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You're welcome to come take a look at mine! www.scwribes.yuku.com
Thanks for the invite. I'll give it a look.
If you're talking about us, don't worry about it! Contribute when you can. It tends to settle down into a cyclical thing. Contribute when you can, but don't worry about doing it all the time.
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