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In an earlier A Work in Progress I wrote about what I most missed after completing coursework for my MA in writing. To fill that gap, I started a writing group. It’s meant so much to me and been so helpful to me that I started a second group. (I’ll write about the second group in a later article.)
I needed the writing workshop experience. I wanted people to read my work and make suggestions about how to improve it, and I wanted to continue learning from the writing of others.
My group—now our group—meets every Sunday. We call it Church. We’re a welcoming church, but not too welcoming. Over the year we’ve built a culture of commitment to each other, to give thoughtful, actionable feedback, to do our best to make use of each other’s input, and to taking our writing seriously.
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