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Wanna join a critique group for short stories for Woman's Mags?
For some years I've been a member of an online critique group for SF and fantasy. It's worked really well, and most of us got published. I'd like a similar group to swap critiques aimed at women's magazines, like "Take a Break" and Women's Weekly".
Does anyone know of such a group which considers new members? Or would anyone like to join me in one?
Ideally, I'm looking for people who:
can be honest without being cruel ("I didn't find your character all that interesting" rather than, "Well that was boring!")
are fairly serious about improving their writing
and
will contribute roughly as many critiques as they receive without having to be nagged.
I created a group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WomensFictionCritiques. Please come and join me, because I'm feeling lonely.
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Try that.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WomensFictionCritiques
In spite of which, the group now has two members!
Phot's Moll, thanks for letting me know about Chapter Seventynine. I don't think I'll join just yet, but I may do in future. It would be really nice to have a British group, so that a) I don't have to explain what dodgems and bum-bags are, b) I don't keep getting my spelling "corrected" and especially c) I'm swapping critiques with people who know the markets I'm aiming at.
I'm not disparaging large, general purpose critique groups, but I'd really love a small, made-to-measure one, and I think it would be friendlier too.
Why not join? You can always leave later if it doesn't work out for you?
(Obviously I should have done that in the first place.)
btw, Chapter Seventy Nine is a British group - non brits are very welcome, but the majority of members are British.
I have to go and cook dinner now. I'll be back tomorrow.
Tsk.
I just set the group to "Private" because that's the only way I know of to stop the whole Internet from reading our emails and files. Without it, anything sent for critique would technically be published. The catch is that it means people can only join by invitation. I meant to post about it here, but obviously I didn't. (I think that might have been the loud crash from the kitchen that interrupted me a couple of days ago. Luckily it wasn't serious.)
If anyone wants to join, whisper me your email address and I'll send you an invite.
Woll22 you should have an invite.
Off to cook tonight's dinner before people get desperate.