Another New Look

So my blog has yet another new look. YAY! I think I'm a little ADD when it comes to how my blogs look. I must change them every three months or so, sometimes more often than that. Well this one I like a lot and will save the template for future use as well. So besides having a new look I'm very pleased to say that I get to go to another of my writing group's meet up. YAY!

From late January to mid April I really wasn't able to attend many of my group's meetings because of work. That then continued into March but then finally in May I was able to go to my first meeting in a while. It felt so good to be with other writers and just be able to write!

Also exciting news for anyone who wants to write a book or has done NaNoWriMo in the past: Camp NaNoWriMo will be launching soon! The long awaited ability to do NaNoWriMo in any month you wish will finally be here! I'm very excited about this since I love NaNo and would willingly do it multiple times a year. I keep looking at the NaNoWriMo website for more information. I'm such a geek!

Peer Critique

A week ago now my writing group had its first critique. I was the only one that showed that was due to be critiqued and a good forty-five minutes was taken up critiquing my first ten raw pages of my NaNoWriMo piece. It was amazing to have peers critique my work again. The best part is that the format in which it was done was very cool. Each person was told to read the piece beforehand and have two praise comments and two critique comments ready. The critique itself was more of a conversation between my peers and the author (me) stayed quiet unless asked a question directly. I was made to reserve my questions until the last which made me listen more closely. All in all a great thing.

On the down side. I looked at my file for my story and unfortunately my computer somehow lost twenty thousand words. My guess is that for some reason the document didn't save when I told it to or something. I searched through my email for the copy of the backup and it seems that I may have deleted it on accident. Awesome. Great.  

On the up side I did get to order my new computer today! I'm super excited and I can't wait to get it! I have literally been doing a happy dance all day since I ordered it. Well, between bouts of sadness at losing twenty thousand words. Yay!

Writing Group

Yesterday evening saw the first meeting of my new writing group. Which is not to say that I own it or that it was entirely my idea but I will say that I did have something to do with it. Mostly poking my buddy Remy and saying, "hey what about that writing group?" I am very excited and looking forward to our next meeting next Thursday. YAY! 

That being said, writing groups are awesome. If you have never been in one and love to write it is a creative idea feeding ground and not to mention free (or mostly free) critiques. It's fabulous. I find that the best things that I've gotten out of writing groups that I've been in are ideas. Other writers are awesome people to talk to if you're stuck in a rut, out of ideas, or just have plain old writer's block. That's my plug for writing groups!