To Join

Writers who are interested in joining this community and have their fellow peers critique their work in a small and friendly group can email Lea Schizas at:

museitupeditor@yahoo.ca

with the subject heading 'Membership' . In the body of your email, please provide the answers to the following questions:

1- YOUR NAME

2- YOUR WRITING GENRE

3- WRITING STYLE: FLASH FICTION? SHORT STORIES? NOVELS?

4- ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A MEMBERSHIP OR MODERATOR POSITION?

5- BRIEF BIO (IF AND WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED)

6- WHICH GROUP(S) ARE YOU INTERESTED IN JOINING? (NO MORE THAN TWO GROUPS.)

7- PLEASE SEND IN A SAMPLE OF YOUR WRITING, NO MORE THAN A FEW PARAGRAPHS. THIS WILL ENABLE US TO PLACE YOU IN THE APPROPRIATE WRITING GROUP.

The MuseItUp Club startup date was September 6th, 2004.

There is now a small waiting period for all new members. We will get to you ASAP with a group in your genre.

GENRES:

These are the genres of the various groups in The MuseItUp Club. There will be only five members per group plus the moderator.

ADULT FICTION

anything (other than hardcore sexual content) that does not fit in with the other genre groups, including nonfiction.

CHILDREN'S STORIES

can be anywhere from early readers to YA.

DARK FICTION

We welcome horror, paranormal, vampires, werewolves, anything that involves chilling a reader.

FLASH FICTION

The demand for publishable flash fiction by online and print magazines continues to grow. These magazines offer exceptionally fast responses, and they are the quickest routes to publication.

Consequently, the MuseItUp Club has created a Flash Fiction Group to help members develop and exercise flash fiction writing skills. Our goal is to help members produce quality manuscripts for publication and writing contests. To reach that goal, members’ writing skills will be continuously exercised.

OUR FLASH FICTION GROUP IS CURRENTLY CLOSED. PLEASE COME BACK WHEN WE OPEN TO NEW MEMBERS AGAIN.

MYSTERY

this can entail police/detective, murder mysteries, thrillers, espionage

NON-FICTION

POETRY

ROMANCE

SCI-FI - FANTASY

Areas a small critique group will help you in:

~ OPENING HOOK

~ CHARACTERIZATION

~ GRAMMAR

~ WORD USAGE

~ PLOT

~ FORESHADOWING

~ DIALOGUE

The overall structure of your story will be analyzed.