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What will you get out of our groups?
- Get constructive, supportive
critique on your current
writing project in a safe environment from a qualified moderator and
your fellow group
members, regardless of the type or genre of the project
- Leave
the group with a notebook filled with new stories and story ideas
- Reignite your passion for writing
- Connect with other writers in your
area
- Create
new stories; generate new ideas every week through improvisational
creative writing exercises
- Elevate your writing
- Experiment with different voices,
different genres
Sessions and Meeting Times
These groups meet in-person, usually in a
private residence. The writers
groups run in eight-week cycles with a few weeks off between each
session. Check our schedule page
for places, dates, and locations. Most groups meet on a
weekday evening or sometimes on Saturdays, for 2-1/2 to 3 hours per
meeting. Our meeting locations vary from session to session (not
meeting to meeting), but
we try to have each group in a different part of the city for easier
access and commute.
Meeting Location and Group Size
Our groups are small, intimate groups of
writers that range anywhere from 4 to 12 people in a group. It
works well regardless of group size. We hold most of our creative
writing groups in private residences, and to protect the privacy of our
moderators or group host(ess) we do not post their addresses on our
site. After you sign up, we will send you an e-mail with the
exact group location.
How the Creative Writing Groups Work
These groups, the charter groups of
LAwritersgroup.com, concentrate on improvisational writing exercises
that get those creative juices flowing to help you create new
material. We also provide a safe environment to read your work
and to get critical feedback from your fellow group members on any work
in progress you choose to bring in. The focus of these creative
writing groups is creating new
material and getting critique on what you bring in.
These are moderated writers’ groups, not
classes in writing techniques. Although you will learn a great deal
from both the moderator’s and fellow members' feedback, there is no
“lecture portion” of the evening. The groups are designed to get
your creativity flowing, provide a safe place to receive feedback, have
a weekly forum to encourage productivity and accountability, and to
explore new voices and genres.
Each workshop will begin with 2 - 3
improvisational writing prompts, each range from 5 minutes to 20
minutes long:
- First
creative writing exercise based on a writing prompt given by the
moderator
- Second
creative writing exercise based on a writing prompt given by the
moderator
- Short
break
- Third
creative writing exercise based on a writing prompt given by the
moderator
- Feedback/discussion
of members materials anyone has brought in for critique
The amount of time accorded to exercises
vs. critique may vary depending upon how much material group members
submit. The group is a commitment, to yourself and your fellow members.
You are strongly encouraged to attend all 8 sessions to achieve maximum
benefit for you and for your fellow members.
Like anything, you will gain as much from the group as you put into it.
Our Writers Group Moderators
The
moderators who run each group are skilled in supporting other writers
and in providing constructive feedback across multiple genres to help
you improve your story and your prose. This is why our groups
are open to all writers regardless of skill level or genre they
write. These kinds of group moderators are not easy to
find. Whether you are a poet,
screenwriter, memoirist, or a fiction or non-fiction writer, you are
welcome at our groups. We screen and pay our moderators
and only hire those who have the kind of supportive passion our groups
require.
Who can join, i.e. what type of writers?
These groups are open to writers of all
kinds and levels. We've had brand new writers sitting in the same
group as advanced writers. We've had poets sitting next to comedy
writers sitting next to screenwriters. It works well for
everyone, because the point is to create new work and get feedback on
what you bring in. The moderator is there
to help with feedback on works in progress, as are your group members. Our creative writing groups
attract well-established
writers, intermediate writers, and newcomers to the writing
craft. Whether you
write poetry, essays, fiction, screenplays or whatever, you are welcome
to join. We only ask that you have a passion for writing and are
ready to show up every week and create new material!
We are currently signing people up for
our 8-week writers groups, so
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