At any rate, I started a blog, recently Self-Publishing, Children’s Books and Me — The Good, The Bad, The Ugly of all Three. Stop by if you get a chance. Now that I’ve seen what a nice blog you have here, I’ll have to add you to my blogroll!!

After two or three years without a critique group I feel the need in getting feedback on a regular basis and searched again. I find another local group a few weeks ago but im not quite happy by now.

The quality is much better than the first group’s, and the people are really nice. Too nice. We do a little bit writing, a little bit reading, but feedback comes in homeopathic
doses, and always, exclusive positive.

It doesn’t pushes me foreward.

But looks like there isn’t any other group in our area and this is one of a few things I doesn’t want to do online.

I think the important thing is not to settle for a group that isn’t working–if it has potential really try to make the relationships and the timing, etc work, and educate each other about how to critique. If the group just isn’t going to fly, move on–with tact, but go. Find another one. My groups have evolved a lot over the past years–as some get published and just don’t have time to do a few chapters every couple of weeks and as we switch genres, etc.

It can be tricky, but I truly believe it’s worth it.

I’m not part of a “critique group” per se, but I am part of an awesome site called the Writer’s Draft. We post excerpts for critique, rant about problems, and share ideas. Et cetera. It’s awesome. It’s really helpful.