authors anonymous

I went to BYU's workshop for 'writers and illustrators for young readers' in June and I left with a renewed commitment to write something worth reading. And I decided one way I was going to do this was by starting a writing group. So that is what I did.

The group: Jaime I know through my church. Jen I currently work with. Mara I worked with a few years ago before she left to have a family. And Amelia is my newest roommate. And they are rad!

We had our first meeting in July but only three of us were able to meet. We talked about how we wanted to run the group for 45 minutes, and then we just talked for another 2 hours.

We met yesterday night for our first 'official' meeting. Last week Jen and I emailed out a few pages of the novel we were working on and then last night we read a few pages out loud and started to discuss. I am so impressed with the discussion and insight. It was also really helpful for me to find places that were confusing and dumb. Thank you girls! I'm excited to be able to read Amelia, Mara, and Jaime's stuff next month. Yay!

We tried to find a name for our group but didn't really decide on anything concretely. My favorite was Authors Anonymous. So hopefully that one sticks. How awesome is that to have an AA meeting every month? (though I guess it's only awesome if it's not a real AA meeting, right?)