UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL. . .

I attended my first meeting of an honest-to-goodness, real, live writers group yesterday: the Writers Club of Pasadena (Texas).

Oh, I've participated in online writing/critique groups for more than ten years; I've been a member of Writing Well, where I'm one of three international moderators, for the past eight years. But, as you know I'm sure, there's not much safer than sitting in your pajamas and critiquing someone's chapter, or participating in debates over this and that, or adding your spec