How to Thrive as a Writing Groupie

By L.A. Young

This is garbage, I sigh, shaking my head. Nothing I can do about it now. I don’t have time to do a rewrite before uploading.

I perform this ritual twice a month, before reading my piece out loud to a group of other writing addicts, so that they can give me their feedback. The process is repeated with each of us, like some sort of literary AA meeting.

I have been in the same writing group for almost 4 years. I nicknamed this one “the Good,” while the two previous groups ...