Writing Group Checklist: The Step-by-Step Guide to Do It RIGHT

[@imaginepageant]

My group runs a bit differently: we meet every other week for two hours, and in each meeting only two members submit a piece, and everyone critiques each piece. This way, writers get more in-depth critiques with varying perspectives. Our group has always been on the large side, and some of us write more frequently than others, so having everyone submit a piece for every meeting just wouldn’t work.

[@rolypolypanda6332]

This is great! Thank you for providing this for free! Golden! Can’t wait to utilize this in my own writing group

[@starquack]

Nicely put with very helpful suggestions. And you taught me a new word! I was all ready to tell you that “analyzation“ was not a word, that you should use “analysis“ instead, until I looked it up. Now I’m feeling sheepish!

[@JohneCook]

Heh. I noticed that, too. Great insight!

[@joshuamctaggart6732]

I love what you do. I’m about to publish my first novel I did outline I didn’t do anything. I tried that line. My last book. I was started the right. I tried to use some of your processes to do the scenes. Do things like that when I got through some of it, my joy of writing was sort of gone gone. I one of those people that sits down and writes a scene and has no clue where it’s going, but I will say this. Some of your advice on how to analyze scenes use some of that to analyze each scene after it was done and by seeing I mean each chapter, so yeah I might be a good candidate to join your course but I do think you’re giving out good information. I think everyone’s a little different but enjoy what you’re doing so keep it up.

[@joshuamctaggart6732]

Ignore my last comment. I’m doing voice type and I just saw that nothing came out right. I’ll have to sit down and type it.

[@TonyPhipps-nd6xp]

I love your content so much! I have little to no clue what I'm doing. 😅 Wanna head a 3 person group until I save up enough $ for the workshop?

[@JohneCook]

Hey, Tony - if you go through and ingest all of these Story Grid videos, you'll be ahead of most people. These are university-level principles that you won't get anywhere else (and they're short enough that you can do one video per day). I was lifelong pantser (a discovery writer who had a disdain for structure or outlining) until I found The Story Grid and found an answer in the first chapter of the second section of the book where Shawn Coyne wrote about the 12 content genres. I discovered that I was trying to tack an epic Action sequence in as the climax to what was otherwise a Thriller under-the-hood. That changed my identity as a writer. I'm now a Plantser, a writer with an appreciation for story structure who discovery-writes between the five parts of a scene. If you only learn about the content genres and the Five Commandments of storytelling, you'll be ahead of the pack! But you can't meet until you have something to share. I challenge you to write one scene that has a protagonist, an antagonist, and contains the five commandments of storytelling (an inciting incident, a turning point, a crisis, a climax, and a resolution). You can learn more about those in the short series Story Grid 101 here: kzbin.info/aero/PLCK-mph6iXUhWil8twt23o926YWBkwsie Once you've written one scene, write another, and another, until you're confident enough to share a new scene every week. And once your scene writing is on point, you'll be ready for a group. I'm part of a group of 3 where we meet every week and go over one scene. We've been meeting for four years now. It's been the very best thing I've done as a writer, but it starts with the basics, and you can find those in Tim's videos.