Last night I met with a local writer’s group that is restarting here in Pittsburgh, Write or Die. Critiques are done clarion style. I’m looking forward to the next meeting. I have a couple of short stories that I’m interested in getting a new perspective on, so this will be good. Hopefully I pick up some good tips.
We also did a little writing exercise. The idea was to take a character from a current WIP, change that character to a robot and write a short paragraph from their perspective. Then pull lines out of that to produce a poem. Mine went like this:
Rest Period
Sub-optimal idle time
Minimal power to systems
Laying in his mother’s arms
Analyzing her organic nature
I don’t usually write poetry, but this amuses me.
-Keep writing
Lori D
/ January 30, 2013I’ve been with a writer’s critique group for five years now. We submit the latest from our WIP twice a month. It can’t be a rough draft. It has to be the cleanest version we feel we could get out of it before submitting. So I edit a half dozen times before I submit to the group. This has been the key to help me improve, and I’m still learning. Good luck with your new writer’s group.
Joshua
/ January 31, 2013Thanks Lori! As usual, I think it will show me just how much I don’t know. Or at least that’s my hope.