Advice, Please--and Keep it Nice

 

Terry here with our question of the week: Have you ever been in a critique group and, if so, what was most/least useful to you?
I’ve been in several critique groups—oh, the stories I could tell!—and I generally feel they have been useful. In fact, I’m now in two critique groups with very different processes. The first is a long-running critique group that I’ve been in for 30 years. The group consists of a TV screen-writer and editor, a non-fiction writer, a short story writer, a mainstream novel...