First meeting of the new critique group. It was successful, although not completely so.
The unsuccessful parts? I thought we were meeting near my house. We were not. I found out 20 minutes before the start of the meeting that we would be meeting 20 miles away near downtown Houston, not in the burbs. I had decided to work from home so that I could skip the commute. I ended up commuting anyway.
One of the members didn't show. We were already down from 5 to 4 since Michael was at a writer's retreat. One of our members had to fill in for a neighbor mom who went into labor. She was stuck caring for the kiddos. Then, as it turns out, one member got the time wrong, she showed up at 1:30, thirty minutes after we had left. So all told the entire critique group consisted of me and Lindsay (but it was a quorum nonetheless).
Actually, there were two members who had the time wrong. I thought it started at 11:00. Nope. 11:30. But, that was to my favor as I was running late anyway.
Those are all the negative or pieces that we need to work on.
The positives?
Having a deadline made me write more and get more done on Vapor Trail.
That alone cancels out all the negatives. We'll try again next month. I'm sure it will be more successful even still.
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