What we’re about
Stuck in a rut in your creative writing life?
Wish you could get motivated and disciplined, with the aim of producing original fiction either for mass consumption someday or simply as part of a joyful exercise of capturing the human experience in prose or lyric?
Want to be able to share your writing with enthusiastic readers-who-are-aspiring-writers, and to receive constructive feedback in a friendly and safe space?
Then this is the group for you!
We are a small group of amateur writers who understand the inner desire to produce original writing and who would benefit from a supportive and low-pressure environment from the comfort of our homes. Occasional IRL meetups may occur from time to time as well!
To kickstart the creative writing muscle and to benefit from a productive and supportive space, however, members should aim to follow this broad structure of each meetup:
- every attendee has to promise to work on the same writing exercise BEFORE each meeting and upload our writing onto a shared document (e.g. Google docs)
- depending on the number of attendees, we read and feedback on someone else's work (in writing) in advance or during the meeting (verbal feedback)
- we also share our personal experiences of how we found the exercises and discuss the theme of the exercise through discussion prompts, e.g. how we approached the topic
- the pre-set tasks are not meant to be onerous, instead they are there to form a neutral template for inspiration
- over time the aims of the group may evolve and we may even be ready to share our own original fiction with one another!