The Writing Group Book: Creating and Sustaining a Successful Writing Group

About this book

In this insightful guide more than 30 members of writing groups explain how and why they found a group to join or established their own how they have kept their group flourishing and what it has enabled them to accomplishfrom simple self-expression to a lifetime of published work. Poets playwrights screenwriters fiction and nonfiction writers memoirists and childrens writers share advice on how to give constructive critiques manage difficult members delegate responsibilities for maintaining the group and keep meetings productive. Online groups international groups and women-only groups are represented and a resource section details ways to market and sell finished work and how to parlay one success into a writing career.