I belonged to a writer's group for about 3 years. We were a group of people that had won a creative non-fiction contest (the highlight of my writing career). Our reward was to spend a month together with a couple mentors. But now we've drifted apart.

I'm looking for a new group but am a little leery. I just pushed myself back into working on a book I've been writing off and on (mostly off) for about 3 years. Previous critiques threw me off in too many directions, made me rethink my whole concept, sent me into a whirlpool of continuous rewrites that ended up not resembling at all what I wanted to write. So I think it might be best to get the whole rough draft done, do some rewrites on my own, then join a group. So maybe in 10 years, I'll start looking for another group.