Hello,
I'm looking for online communities for writers, where you can share your work and get feedback. I'm originally from London, but am living and working abroad at the moment, so that's why I'm looking for internet groups.
Does anyone know any good groups?
Many thanks
This site, of course; there's also http://www.critiquecircle.com/ which may appeal to you. Very active, and covers all genres and types of writing.
I used to be quite active on www.youwriteon.com, a peer-review site now with an associated self-pub. You must be prepared to read others' work (it's a review-for-review site using a set scoring format) but I found it really useful at the beginning.
You must be prepared for comments varying from sometimes quite stinging criticism to excessive praise, but there's always something to take from each review. They use a league table scoring system configured to average high and low scores to make everything fairer (don't ask me how it works - I'm not sure anyone really knows) but many, including me, don't bother with that, even though consistently high-scoring stories can win critiques from well-known publishers.
Worth a look, at least.
Hi Anya,
This one! You can now share multiple works on the site and also events you might be involved with, ask questions about the writing/publishing process, enter the free writing competitions we make available on the site and we also try to give discounts to our events and services when we can too!
Best wishes,
The W&A Team