Here are some reasons I love my new critique group.

1. It’s small, and we can get through everything in 90 minutes.
2. Nobody gets defensive (which helps with #1).
3. I agree with 90% of their comments**
4. We all live within a relatively short ride of each other***

I hope they also bring good snacks, but that might be too much happiness.

*With apologies to my old ones, because they were also quite wonderful.

**So they are clearly brilliant and insightful.

***Unless it’s rush hour, because, you know, Northern Virginia.

Writers, do you believe the woman sitting next you making business calls on her cell for over an hour in your favorite coffee/writing spot should get a life sentence without hope of parole?*

*Rhetorical question

Three things I have learned while editing my current WIP

1. I spend too much time on “Where to put a comma” websites.
2. And I promptly forget whatever rules I learned on those sites
3. My chapter numbers are out of order
4. There is a reason people hire editors*

Did I say three? See what I mean?

*She said, preparing to hear from editors who catch all the spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors in the preceding lines.

I have written, directed, and acted, but rarely all at once, and never all at once on the big, little, or any screen. My son, on the other hand,*

*she said, posting link to slightly edgy video https://www.facebook.com/thefunpolicecomedy/videos/1273184026159502/?fref=mentions&pnref=story

I’m rather stunned that despite using that name more than once in a post, I have yet to get a single blog visitor from Greenland.*

*This would also apply to actual visitors at my house, which could be a good thing.

I hit the submit button on a query page. Only those of you at #amwriting and similar #s will understand the significance. Also a few people who are spending their time productively instead of fooling around on Twitter.*

*If you’re reading this, you’re probably fooling around on Twitter, so ignore the fact that I referred to it as “fooling around.” You’re probably gathering important information by watching funny cat videos.

My Mac message autocorrect function had absolutely no problem with Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland. Yet it turned Mi Sheberach (a Jewish prayer for healing) into “Midge era he.” Although I can’t prove it, I bet Mi Sheberach is used many more times around the world every day than Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland.*

Except in Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland**

**On second thought, probably there too.