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SheilaT

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3. I've been unable to find a writers group

Reply to Agnosticsherbet (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 24, 2015, 04:29 PM

Nov 2015

that works for me. I write science fiction, not fantasy, and many otherwise good people who might be good at critiquing have never even read s-f, so they simply cannot be helpful.

I am still holding out for an in-person group, even though I know many like on-line stuff.

I'm far from a beginner, have been published professionally several times, and I need a group where most of the writers will be better than I am, and so far I'm unable to find that. I live in Santa Fe, lots and lots of s-f writers here, but the pros, somewhat understandably don't really want someone like me in their group. I dropped a hint to one of them recently, and was very politely turned down. No surprise. Oh, well.

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