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Welcome to the LA Writers Critique Group website!  Please see below for our schedule of meetings and browse our site for more information about participating.

TOPIC
LINK
LOCATION
TIME
01/04/2020Getting (and Staying) Motivated in 2020San Rafael Library10-12:30
1/11/2020Setting Career Development Goals as a WriterSilver Lake Library9:30–12
2/1/2020Just Write! vs Get it Right Before You Write: Finding your place along the spectrumSan Rafael Library10-12:30
2/8/2020Indie Publishing Q&A continuedSilver Lake Library9:30–12
3/7/2020tbdSan Rafael Library10-12:30
3/14/2020World-building: Not just for genre fictionSilver Lake Library9:30–12
4/4/2019100-page critiques (no presentation); manuscripts due 2/16/20San Rafael Library10-12:30
4/11/2019Who Said What?: Using dialogue to identify charactersSilver Lake Library9:30–12
5/2/2019Body and Mind: Describing physical symptoms of internal processesSan Rafael Library10-12:30
5/9/2020
Focus on Strengths or Shore Up Weaknesses?: Maximizing efficiency while minimizing faults

How Our Group Works

Submissions for each workshop will be saved to a specific Google Drive folder. The link to the folder will appear in the blog post for that workshop. For example, to find the submissions for May 4, go to that blog post and click on the link.

Each session’s documents and associated info (such as the document showing which group you are in for that week) will be included in that same folder. Keep in mind that you will link to the shared drive from this website, so we’ll point you here from our emails sent from Meetup.

We are also creating and updating a mailing list so that we can send updates and reminders to you from outside of the Meetup setup. Please be patient as we figure out how best to do this!

About

We started on Meetup.com at: https://www.meetup.com/LAwriterscritiquegroup/ and can be found on Facebook at https://fb.me/LAwriterscritiquegroup

We are a group dedicated to writing, finishing, and publishing a novel, memoir, or short story. We critique each others’ work and serve as a support group for helping writers plot, organize, and publish their writing. We meet at the San Rafael Library and the Silver Lake Library. The format goes like this: At 9:30 or 10 a.m., the library opens. There is a presentation on the day’s subject that should last about a half-hour, unless we have a special guest star visiting. When the presentation is done, we begin the critiques.

Our group handles the following types of submissions:

  • 10-page excerpts
  • 30-page excerpts
  • First 100 pages
  • Full book manuscripts

Refer to the meeting descriptions in our blog to figure out when we accept works of different lengths for critique!

This  group is designed to help writers prepare a quality manuscript by critiquing work and discussing writing topics.

We all work hard at reading and commenting on our members’ manuscripts.

Some of us have been writing for years. Some of us are novices. All of us are dedicated to the craft of writing. We use Meetup and this website as a commitment to keep working on our projects.

We come from a variety of backgrounds. We are of all ages, but we have fiction and memoir writing in common.

Blog

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January 11, 2020 meeting

The link to the documents for this meeting is provided below. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1u3u8eDJTBJY7chtW8JvPncngglcPodlI Happy reading, writing, and critiquing!

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December 7, 2019 Meeting

This is the link for the December 7, 2019 meeting. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/18JNjWfmQltpSAZkbbCFUBduc97KUD2q- Use this link to obtain the list of who’s in what group and view/download/critique the appropriate documents. Happy reading!

Contact

Please contact us at our email address, docs@lawriterscritiquegroup.com, to send submissions and critiques.