: There are already good answers here, and you mention the idea of writing groups, but it sounds like we're not thinking of the same thing. It won't work for everyone (particularly people with

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There are already good answers here, and you mention the idea of writing groups, but it sounds like we're not thinking of the same thing.

It won't work for everyone (particularly people with difficulty travelling or living in isolated areas), but my first thought was a physical writing group - people sitting on folding chairs in a school hall or around tables in the back room of a local pub. There are more of these than people think, and they can be found by an internet search and sometimes by flyers left in local bookshops and libraries.

You might find a local college offers evening classes, which would be a good place to start - I've been a member of groups that have formed when an evening class ended.

A physical group has the advantage that you'll see immediately what people thought of your story - especially the ones who don't offer a comment. You'll also find people with different ways of telling a story. It's true that you're stuck with the same problem of reading sections, but from a storytelling perspective it's no worse than watching a television series rather than a film, and since the same people will be hearing each section they'll build the story in their own minds in a way that strangers on the internet probably wouldn't.

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