Do writing groups really help? I believe they can. Indeed, they must. At work someone has started up a creative writing group. I went to a meeting. I felt old. Like dirty old man old. I mean, shouldn’t somebody my age already know about publishing? Shouldn’t I put up or shut up? What was a guy old enough to be the father of everyone in the room to say? I’ve been part of writers’ groups before. I joined the Liberty State Writers Group once upon a time. I felt lost. There were so many of them, and they all knew each other. I’m shy, like a writer, and soon felt lost. I stopped going before my dues ran out. I still remember one girl there. I never knew her name. She shyly smiled at me and said “hi” a time or two. I bet she wrote the kinds of thing I do. I’ll never know. More recently a joined a mostly male writerly group. Males tend to be more aggressive, self-i...
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