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Any general advice on how to find a writing group, for intermediate writers that are past the beginners stage? I'm thinking of people that are perhaps beyond th

Any general advice on how to find a writing group, for intermediate writers that are past the beginners stage? I'm thinking of people that are perhaps beyond the nanowrimo and fanfic stages, that are comfortable with dialogue and characterization, that can string together some fun scenes and short stories, but aren't published writers. I personally have been having fun over the past year writing a branching novel with some friends. I know I've personally written more than 50k words with all sorts of characters and twists and turns and satisfying conclusions, but I feel like I'm plateauing. I've thought about joining one of my local meetup.com writing groups but I get the sense they'll take anyone and I'd rather be the weakest writer in the room. Well, maybe second-weakest.

cableshaft 6y ago
My wife had some luck taking a couple of courses by established writers, who had their own private Facebook group you can join afterwards. Seems like most of the people who are willing to pay a few hundred dollars for the course are more serious about wanting to make a career of it. I belong to a local writer's group, and except for a short story anthology that gets put out every year (and I participate in sometimes), it's pretty clear that 90% of the people in the group are never going to put forth the effort to probably ever even get a self-published book out there. And they definitely aren't serious enough to spend any money to have any success. Can't even get them to chip in $15 apiece to pay to get a decent looking book cover so the anthology might grab some eyeballs and their stories get more readers.