Creative Writing Café

This is a non-judgmental, positive and friendly environment where participants can share their writing, meet other writers, and have some time to write in silence.

Our schedule goes something like this:
Introductions (first 15 minutes)
Silent Writing (1 hour)
Sharing Work and Feedback (45 minutes, 5 minutes per person)

After someone finishes reading, listeners should only share positive feedback. This has been the protocol for this group and is what members have come to expect.

Sometimes we go a little over 6pm. This is a long-standing writing group that used to meet at the Sleeping Cat Café which then went out of business but now has been replaced with Books N' Cup. We kept our weekly meetings going in the meantime at various locations.

How to find us: Look at my picture, memorize my face.

We meet weekly to discuss our writing progress, support each other, and hold each other accountable to self-determined goals. We also discuss strategies to increase our writing output, and, occasionally, brainstorm our project ideas. This is a not a critique group; we will not be sharing nor evaluating each other's work. Rather, we will discuss habits that help with writing or barriers that prevent it, and how to get around those barriers. It's a good way to get to know other writers in a small, intimate group.

The meeting will proceed as follows:

START
1. brief introductions
2. past week check-in and goal-setting the coming week.
3. 20 mins silent writing
4. check-in
5. general discussion of writing habits
END