WRITING: Groups

I’d just about given up on writing groups. Locally, there just didn’t seem to be any number of serious writers. Internetally, the groups were mainly genre fiction and stuck to the rules of writing as if they’d be struck down by the hand of some god if they didn’t. Edgy was misunderstood. No, edgy was downright frowned upon.

Of course that doesn’t mean there aren’t great writing groups out there, but I just hadn’t come across a group before with the high caliber writing, the support of literary journals, the honest critique as well as the support and appreciation that I’ve found just recently at Fictionaut.com.  So like a stray cat, I’m drinking the milk of some great short story writing, being not afraid to comment and getting some nice comments on my own humble offering of stories.

What’s nice is that so many people will bother to read the stories. Many have even braved my hypertext story and I hope to present more of those at their site, maybe encourage more writers to try the hypertext form. These are strangers and they’ve shown more interest in the work presented than I can scare up among friends and writer friends in the flesh.

Maybe it’s the level of commitment that these particular artists are at, or maybe the novelty of the site will wear off eventually for many here too, but in the meantime, I’m really feeling the movement of ideas and the creative force that one only read about in artistic community.