One of the things that will make this an awesome writing year for me: I belong to the best writer’s critique group ever . My group is called Raintree Writers and currently has seven members, three women and four men. How this group evolved from its 2003 all female beginnings to 2020 is a long story, but we’ll leave that for another time. For this post, I’ll focus on the high points for the best ways to find or create a group that works for you, what makes a successful critique group, and how to be the best critique group member ever. Finding or Forming a Critique Group Pexels Back in 2003, I took a well-attended novel-writing class here in Northern Colorado from author Brian Kaufman . After the class ended, a couple of the women proactively invited several classmates to form a new critique group to keep each other writing and to help with “eyes-on” submission evaluations. In my opinion, this is the best way to find an existing group, find a critique partner, or form a ne...