Let me tell you a story … the first writing group experience I have was at least ten years ago, maybe more. There was a Saturday morning group that met at the TAFE college in town (TAFE, for non-Aussies, is Technical And Further Education, and it’s a place where you can learn anything from how to cut hair or speak Spanish through to, apparently, creative writing).
The story: This writing group didn’t work out well

I’ll say right from the start that this first writing group experience was not exactly positive. I …