In this week's column, a reader asks if they should leave their writers' group, and I get to talk about the troubling trend of people demanding moral purity from their fiction
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My hot take on this is that the increase of writing groups and workshops has in some cases led to a weird phenomenon of fiction written by committee? Many writing groups are fantastic but the thought of this one made me break out in hives. Excellent advice as always, JP.
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I love my writing group, it's just a communal space to write. We don't read anyone's work there. I've been telling people I write garbage for the past 2 years and I've gotten so much work done.
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i would read Bruno and Desmond Briefly Defy the Laws of Physics it sounds sexy
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There is just so much that’s wonderfully quotable in this reply!! The identity driven over simplifications, yesss.
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