What we’re about
The Good Enough Writing Workshop, online — Peer Feedback &c. offers online peer-review workshopping sessions where you can share and get feedback on fiction, poetry, song, creative nonfiction — and TV, film, or stage scripts that you’ve been working on.
We may also offer instructional workshops; stay tuned!
The group is nominally based in Toronto but we welcome people from around the world. For example, I'm living in Chicago these days.
If you are serious about writing and are looking to meet and connect with other writers, please join us! Which is to say, we are happy to welcome new writers or ones who have been at it for a while. But we ask that you have a strong commitment to your craft — or to improving it. Most of our active members have professional ambitions for their writing. This need not be your case but we do hope you work hard on your writing.
Likewise, if your focus is on genre fiction, we might not be your best readers. This is not intended as a judgement on genre fiction. We can only be good at so much in this life and our active members are more focused on literary and experimental fiction. That said, if what you write is a mashup of genres — or genre taken to the level of art — this might be a better match for our reading backgrounds.
I think it's important to keep in mind that writing can only ever be "good enough" — just as the feedback we give can never be perfect. As the Italian proverb said, "l meglio è l'inimico del bene" — the perfect is the enemy of the good. As writers, we are too often prevented from doing good work because we don't think it's perfect. It's much easier to improve what is good enough than to improve nothing at all.
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You can find more information on how the peer-feedback groups are run on my website:
https://www.v11.org/workshop
https://www.v11.org/workshop-guidelines
We ask writers to post their texts ahead of time so people can read and think about them beforehand. We share these texts (etc.) on Dropbox. As such, if you haven't sent me the email associated with your Dropbox account or need a (free) account, please see here: https://www.v11.org/contactform
Don't be shy about dropping by. The idea of workshopping your writing can be frightening so we encourage you to join us before you're ready to share. It's also important to "pay it forward" — no fly-by-nights!
If you have any questions, you can write to me here on Meetup or by sending me a note through the contact form at the foot of the first page of my website, here:
https://www.v11.org
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