I quit the local critique group I've been attending for the past few months. I have several reasons for dropping out, but the biggest one is the lack of time. I'm not terribly prolific these days, and only manage to crank out a new story every month or so. This group meets twice a month, and everyone but me has something new to distribute at every meeting. All of them are working on novels and want to get the chapters through the critique process ASAP. This means I have to do about ten critiques a month, in return for my one story to be critiqued. I find myself spending more time on critiques than my own writing, and that just can't go on.

A few meetings ago, one of the other members floated the idea of cutting back to once a month, which would have been a lot better for me, but it was shot down because it would take too long to get through those novels. I understand that, and would probably feel the same way if I were working my way through a novel.

But I'm not, so now I'm on my own again. And so it goes.