Thursday, January 14, 2010

Writers' Group

Two fascinating things happened in my writers' group this morning. One is that my husband came with me. He writes but tends to stay away from my hobbies. Unfortunately, he's an excellent writer and doesn't let it out, so I'm hoping that he'll stay in the group and pick up the novel he started for NaNoWriMo. It has a lot of potential.

The second thing is that I got read again, after just being read last week. This is unusual, but not many people have submitted chapters to the leader, so there mine was. This was the chapter about Heather taking the stone the dragon gave her to get it made into earrings. The stone, a mandarin garnet, has magical powers and causes some problems for the jeweler. The other writers, even the new ones, were rather critical of some of my writing, to the point that I defended myself. It seems that some heavy duty editing is in order, but I will hang onto some ideas. Brian, wisely, did not enter into that discussion.

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