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Name:

Bellingham Critique Group

Location:

Bellingham, Washington, United States

E-mail:

criada

hotmail.com

About:

We're already authors, but we want to be professionally published authors. Every Friday at 5:00 p.m. we meet at one of our members' houses and trade printouts for editing. Contact

criada for the address. There are only three criteria for attending a meeting:

1. You must bring hard copy of your work. If you do not have a printed piece of writing for us to redpen for you, please stay home and create one so you can attend the next meeting. (Note: We mainly deal with prose because most of us write novels or short stories and don't feel comfortable editing things like comic scripts or poetry.)

2. Be mature enough to accept criticism without taking it personally. You can choose to ignore advice, but if you will get defensive or irritated listening to people tell you how they think you could improve, you're wasting everyone's time. We're trying to help each other. If you've never seen an editor tear into an author's precious wordbaby, we assure you: it's going to hurt a lot more than our relatively mild suggestions.

3. Enjoy reading everyone's work! We love books or we wouldn't be writing them, so we hope you enjoy the opportunity to peek behind the scenes and even contribute to the creation process. If you only read the work of others so they will in turn read yours, you probably want to join a different group.

We are primarily fantasy and science-fiction authors, but people writing in any genres are welcome. Bring your diamond-in-the-rough and get it published, whether it's the work of ten years or of last year's NaNoWriMo. We also have an interesting blend of minorities attending, and everyone is welcome!

The purpose of this LJ community is simply to give us a central place for corresponding with the other members. If you can't make the upcoming meeting, want to request that someone bring a specific piece of work or post relevant critiqueing/authoring/publishing links, this is the place to do it. We simply ask you don't clutter the community with off-topic posts; you can even post your writing here, though there's no guarantees anyone will have time to critique it. (Just lj-cut it please.)

Well, that's it. If you have a question, post about it. :)

Interests:

4: critique, novels, stories, writing

Maintainers:

1: criada

Members: