I Started a Writing Group

So... I really enjoy writing. And I tend to get incredibly excited about it whenever the subject comes up. I also get really excited whenever other people have writing projects they want to work on. 

I've been talking with my family forever about starting a writing group, and I finally, finally did it! We had our first meeting, and it was so much more successful than I ever thought it would be. 

I started out by sending out an episode of the Pen2Plot podcast (I'd totally recommend for any writers out there looking for chill, very supportive vibes) as homework. Everyone had to listen to the episode about goal setting and think about what it means for them before we met. 

We met for about an hour and twenty minutes, and I don't know if many of you have tried to have a laser focused meeting with your family members, but I can tell you with my family, that's like... a miracle. But! Everyone sat down, we stayed super focused on writing and the writing goals we wanted to set. 

We started out by debriefing about the episode and discussing what stood out to each of us personally. Then, we worked through setting our own goals. Personally, I have a LOT of goals, and I update and adjust them often. In this meeting, our focus was to set one large scale goal (publishing a book, for example), and then another smaller goal that can be measured and adjusted from week to week. For most of us, this was a time goal. How many minutes a day did we want to spend writing? What project would we be focused on? 

After our discussion, we reviewed our goals to solidify our plan for the next week, and then we set a timer and each of us spent the next fifteen minutes writing like mad. It was awesome. 

For all you other writers out there, do you work better on your own, or with others? What does your goal setting process look like? Do you find that you're able to meet most of the goals you set? I'd love to know! 

I'll be writing another post in the near future about goal setting, but for now, I'm going to call this one a wrap. Stay tuned for other writing-related posts, as well as for updates on how this writing group pans out. I'm psyched about it so far!

The following links are inserted because I really find the content to be helpful. I am not sponsored by this podcast. 
Pen2Plot Podcast (First Episode - Youtube)                           ✍️Welcome to the Pen2Plot Podcast!           
Pen2Plot Podcast (Goal Setting Episode - Youtube)                           How Failing a Writing Challenge Changed My Goal-Setting Strategy