Direction and Dedication

Every Saturday, the four or five writers who actively participated in NaNoWriMo in my city get together to sit down together and write. We do thirty minutes of writing, and then count to see who wrote the most words, followed by forty-five minutes or so of conversation about writing, our stories, characters, and daily life. We do not critique each other's works. We do not share the writing it's self. We write. We chatter. We enjoy the company. It seems to me, this is a logical way to organize a group as diverse in ability and genera as ours. Something to think about, if you're in a group that is very far flung in ability and genera, where the only thing you all really have in common is that you're writing.