I’m looking for a writer’s group that meets some or all of the following characteristics:
It’s completely private. Everyone agrees that nothing leaves the group.
It’s almost all asynchronous. No Zoom write-ins, etc. Every month there’s a check-in where you can read aloud if you want to, but contributors are from all around the world and therefore lots of different timezones, so the synchronous part isn’t required.
Everyone is working on either one long-form fiction work, or a series of short stories. There’s no non-fiction.
Everyone must submit at least 1000 more words of their work every week for everyone else to read. People can leave comments but don’t need to crit.
If you don’t submit work, you’re out of the group. (Maybe there’s a three strikes rule.)
It works seasonally - so you commit to a season, but if you fall out you can start again for the next season.
I haven’t seen anything like this. Have you?
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