Writing Resources – Joanne Kuhns

Critique Group

A good critique group will help you more than any other resource listed here. It is good to have members of varying gender, age, family background, career, and so on, because your potential readers will also be quite diverse. And if you can get people with backgrounds in medicine, law, and law enforcement, you have built-in subject matter experts for pretty much any question. Our critique group, the Really Cool Writing Group (RCWG) has been in continuous operation since 1995. The members have changed over the years and some, including me, have dropped out for periods and then rejoined. We have some guidelines for critiquing which have proved useful for us.

RCWG CRITIQUE GUIDELINES:Download

Books

**The Elements of Style**
**by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White**

**Writing the Breakout Novel: Insider Advice for Taking Your Fiction to the Next Level**
**by Donald Maass**

**The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface**
**by Donald Maass**

**Story Physics: Harnessing the Underlying Forces of Storytelling**
**by Larry Brooks**

Workshops and Conferences: Favorites of RCWG Members

The San Francisco Writers Conference

**The Surrey International Writers’ Conference**

**Breakout Novel Intensive Conference in Hood River**

Community of Writers at Squaw Valley
Writers Workshops