Critique Groups Question Title * 1. What is your publication status? I am multi-published. I am agented but not yet published. I am unagented and not yet published. OK Question Title * 2. How does your critique group give critiques? In person Via social media (Facebook group, Yahoo group, etc.) Via email. OK Question Title * 3. How often does your critique group meet? Weekly Bi-weekly Monthly As needed. Other OK Question Title * 4. Does your group have strict guidelines for a critique session? Example: Limiting the number of pages a person can submit at one time? Limiting the amount of time a person can talk before surrendering the floor. Yes, order is essential to maintaining the health of the critique group Yes, sort of, there are guidelines but they are pretty fluid No, no guidelines. Folks interact when and how they need to. OK Question Title * 5. What do most of the critiques consist of in your group? Macro edits, overall impressions, big story problems Micro edits, grammar, punctuation, word usage Brainstorming rather than critiques It depends upon what the submitter has asked for...critiques are tailored to the needs of the author asking for the critique It depends upon the strengths of the person doing the critique...critiques are tailored to the skills of the person giving the critique. OK Question Title * 6. Do the people in your critique group write in the same genre as you do? Yes, we're a happy band of genre cohorts and we like it. Yes, but I wish there was more variety No, and the spectrum of genres means all of our work is stronger because of it No, but I wish I critiqued only manuscripts in the same genre as I write OK Question Title * 7. Are all or most of the members in your critique group at about the same place in their writing journey as you are? Yes, we are all at about the same place, the same experience level No, we're all over the map, with some multi-published, some newbies, some in between. OK Question Title * 8. If you are currently in or have been in a critique group, how long have you/did you stay? Less than a year 1-3 years 3-5 years More than 5 years I have never been in a critique group. OK Question Title * 9. How did you find your critique partners? Matched up through a writing organization (Like ACFW or RWA) Connected online Local writer's group OK Question Title * 10. If you left a critique group or partner, was the parting amicable? Yes, it was time, and the group/partnership disbanded and we're all still friends. Yes, pretty much...we just drifted apart. No, it was uncomfortable but necessary. No, it was volcanic and toxic. OK DONE