NaNoWriMo is over and has been for 13 days. Since then, my daily writing habits have wavered, coming and going in the face of holiday (which means Christmas, for me) activities. I met with my NaNo-buddy that lives near by, and we started talking about the old days when we felt compelled by the deadline to write and write. We did not write much, having had limited time to catch up on real life with each other. But, in the midst of talking about what we had been up to, the lament about not writing spurred me on to make the suggestion that we have a writing group. Which made me think that my friend and I might need a push in the right direction, namely, we might need an accountability group for writing.
Unlike AA, this group would hold people accountable for doing a behavior rather than not doing a behavior. Namely, I came up with a provisional idea.
The rule of my writing group: write five pages (or a chapter) a week and then let the group read it. Since there are two of us, that means we will be reading each other's work.
The second rule: each person is required to make the best criticism and the best compliment they can about the piece of writing.
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