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WRITING GROUPS: HOW TO START A GREAT ONE

I believe that writing groups can really push writers ahead -- much more quickly than when writers just trudge along on their own. Here are some useful tips to help create and sustain effective and supportive writing groups: I hope they help!

For most of the past decade, I’ve been in one writing group or another. Mostly for fiction, although I’ve also shared my writing with poetry friends in smaller numbers (less group, more #girlgang!). Deadlines and feedback have been critical to my growth as a writer and one sure way to get this is through sharing your writing regularly in a writers group.

Or: writers groups, plural. At different times, I've been in separate groups for both poetry and fiction at the same time, and had a writing mentor at the same time. It really depends on your focus and how much time you have.

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How to Learn to Love Your First Draft

How to Manage a Book-Length Project

How to Overcome the Fear of Writing a Book

Four Ways to Tell If You Can Really Write a Book

Real Talk About Finding More Time to Write

Facing Failure: 3 Different Ways Writers Fail

Outlining a Book: Beyond Pants

The Path Through Biography, with Merilyn Simonds

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How to Find More Time to Write

Writing a Memoir in Essays, with Rona Maynard

MFA Pros & Cons (and your other options), with Gabriela Pereira

The Writer as Collaborator, with Anita Lahey

Writing Historical Fiction, with Natalie Morrill

How to Get Useful Feedback on Your Writing

Book Marketing Secrets

Your Writing Routine and Your Personality

How to Write a Book that Works: Revisiting the Classic 3-Act Structure

Words of Wisdom: 52 Inspiring Writing Quotes

When It’s Time for A Developmental Editor

How to Manage Creative Anxiety

Playing, Plotting and Pantsing, with Gail Anderson-Dargatz

He Doesn't Know Anything, with Michael Blouin

Behind the Scenes of a Small Literary Press

On Grace and Self-Compassion

Loving Independence: On Self-Publishing, with Emma Dhesi

How to Find the Focus to Write

On Writing and Failure: Interview with Stephen Marche

Inspiration from the Compost Heap: Interview with Frances Boyle

Tent Poles: Structuring Writing and Life with Elisabeth de Mariaffi

A Different Shape: Interview with Barbara Joan Scott

20 Best Podcasts for Writers

All Trains Arrive: An Interview with Kate Heartfield

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Barbara Sibbald: It’s All Consuming

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