Review: A horror of a writing group
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2011
After reading Rebecca M. Senese's Writing Critique: A Short Horror Story, I'm not sure I'd want to be in a writing group.  At least not one where every member is the Simon Cowell of writing critique.The writer in this instance gets the story all ready on good quality paper and has it stapled for free, so it will stay together neatly.  No typos, nothing in error.  This could be the best yet. The paper is handed out to the members and two weeks later it is discussed and critiqued by the other members of the writing group.The writer takes a lot of notes as his so-called friends give their opinions on his story.  One thing he notices is that the staples are coming loose on some of the papers. It remains to be seen what his group thinks about his writing and about him, and how he reacts to what they have to say.This is what I call a light horror story.  It won't terrify, but it's just uncomfortable enough in some places to fit the genre.  All I know is that I won't be taking up writing short stories of my own any time soon.