At the advice of friends, I started a creative writing group that met tonight for the first time. Needless to say, it was very therapeutic and improvisational. There were 5 others in the group, besides myself, and we simply began by brainstorming verbs. People would call them out at random and we wrote them down. Then, for 30 minutes, we wrote uninterrupted and tried to use the verbs whenever possible. At the end of the time, we shared our stories and heard only positive comments. It was amazing how different the stories were, as well as how differently the words were used. The exercise was actually kind of therapeutic!

Has anyone else read the writing books by Goldberg and Cameron or been involved with any writing groups like this?

Sounds like fun