...Writer's need good, honest and constructive feedback in order to grow. We don't trust our friends. We have convinced ourselves that our friends are either a.) biased or b.) sparing our feelings. We love our friends for this...
We just don't trust their feedback...
So, living in a small town with a university complete with a flourishing MFA program and shockingly NO public writing groups, I naturally turned to the internet.
The internet is great, you can be pretty anonymous and post chapters for critique. I did this for months with my first manuscript and it worked great. Until it did not work great. The quality of critiques waned and then one was down right flippant, which I took really personally until I found out the critter was 13. At that point I stopped completely.
But here I am with a new nearly completed new manuscript, in need of critique. I feel like I'm going back to a bad relationship.
Comment if you know of any writers in the Forest Grove area looking for a writing group (especially if they like urban fantasy)!
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3 months ago
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You know, maybe we should start our own writer's group? Hang fliers at the library? Cuz you have SO MUCH time on your hands! LOL!!!!
That's not a bad idea...do you think we'd get a lot of weirdos? Cause there are some serious weirdos in town. Unless they think we're the weirdos...
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