Guidelines
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Name
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Works In Progress Writers’ Workshop
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Purpose
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The purpose of our group is to provide a safe, respectful, and encouraging environment where
writers can share their writing. Our goals are to welcome all adult writers no matter what their
genre or skill level, to provide motivation, and to share publishing and writing ideas with each
other.
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When we meet
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The First and Third Thursdays of each month 6:00 - 10:00 p.m. at various locations.
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Is there a cost?
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No, but we do request that you make a small donation toward stamps and refreshments
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Format of the meeting
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- Generally, we take a few minutes to get reacquainted and to meet any new members.
- Next, we share any concerns or present any suggestions.
- Each month, we have a writing assignment. If you have done this assignment, we take
turns reading our completed assignments.
- At this point, we critique each other’s writing.
- We discuss the next assignment, goals, and the next meeting date.
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Guidelines/Suggestions
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Please be respectful of the other members of the group. Writing is a personal process, and it
is very hard to present your work to other people. Please be honest and direct in your critique,
but do it in a thoughtful way.
Please READ your fellow writers’ work and have something to say about it at the following
meeting. We can provide suggestions on how to critique.
If you cannot be present at a meeting, please be prepared for the following meeting.
This is your WRITING group. You get as much from it as you put into it. Please make every
attempt to write something for each meeting. Your fellow writers learn as much from your
writing as they do from your critiques of their writing.
Work to be critiqued must be emailed or given to the group on the Tuesday before each
meeting.
If the work to be critiqued exceeds 100 pages, we will discuss a longer time frame for reading
and critiquing. However, this time frame cannot exceed one month.
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