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Hey! I’m a local professional writer who writes and edits in the speculative fiction genre (scifi, horror, slipstream, steampunk, silkpunk, afrofuturism, etc). I thought it’d be cool if Olympia had its own version of North Seattle SciFi and Fantasy Writers group or Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers group, which are both groups with the mindset of helping writers improve and grow as professionals so they can see their work in print and reach their goals. The group has been running since the beginning of 2020. We meet on Slack in a group chat with no videos. We are a mixture of beginners and pros who all come to help each other grow and reach our publishing goals.
This isn’t the best group for hobby writers or people who are just looking to get people to read their stories without the mindset of growing, helping others, or publishing.
All levels of writers are welcome to share their ideas and try new ones while giving and receiving honest critiques. There’ll be a workshop/tutorial component to the group, which makes it unlike many writing groups out there who focus solely on critiquing without actually working on bettering the craft of the writers. We also have decompression sessions where we talk about how our writing is going, cool books we’ve read, new ideas that are stealing us away from our current WIP, etc.
