The First Bucks County Writer's Group Meeting
Yesterday marked the first Bucks County Writer’s Group meeting. Two fellow NaNoWriMo participants and I met up in the café at Borders Bookstore in Langhorne, and with cookies and coffee in hand we dove into the critiques. Alex submitted the beginning of her Young Adult (YA) novel and I submitted a horror short story. I was nominated to go first; Alex wasn’t ready to face the firing squad. To avoid interruption and to keep the discussion moving, the author is “killed”. My frazzled nerves and motherly protectiveness over my short story made it difficult to remain “dead” during the critique, so I shoved cookies in my mouth to stifle any attempt to defend or respond. I took notes to refer to later and realized all the constructive criticism was spot on. Their feedback mirrored all the questions I asked them to focus on while reading my piece. I was convinced I would want to throw myself out a window after listening to my piece being rippe...