Welcome! This group is for anyone interested in improving their writing. We'll meet weekly to read over and edit each others' writing pieces. Over the long-term I'd like the group to be a resource for writers of any kind. I'd like us to be able to share tips, books, and strategies. My goal is that each one of us contributes to improving each others' writing. Join us!

The group meets at different south metro locations, and is a combination of group discussion on themes of the craft, writing exercises, sharing of current projects, and writing time. If you are looking for a diverse crowd to help strengthen your writing skills through discussion, to receive peer feedback, share your works-in-progress, and to get some writing done, this is the place for you. All ages, styles, and skill-levels are welcome.

We write with pen and paper (leave your laptop at home, unless you need asssistive tech) to prompts during the meetup. We are all about the creativity and support, not critique. No degree of separation. No fame. Just writers writing. Authentic. Whimsical. Vulnerable. "It's all true, none of it's true, don't ask." We often spend too much time thinking about writing instread of writing. Our group meets to spend time writing. After we get our coffee, we pick a prompt (phrases, pictures) and a time …

Mission: Ideally, we’d like 6-8 regular attendees to monthly contribute 8-12 pages (double-space, 12 pt font) of commercial fiction*. Format: workshopping. Intention: Everybody ‘gets time’. Motto: Always honest, but never mean. 6-8 regular attendees. Regular implies some level of commitment and allows for remembering each other’s plot lines, characters, revisions, etc. We’re trying to create a writing lab, a safe haven from the writing jungle: a ‘place’ to nurture experimentation + take chances …

As a transplant from Seattle, I've been missing my poetry workshop mates and I haven't discovered a group on here or in this city that quite fits. I'd like to have a place that provides opportunity for serious workshopping of poetry, as well as helps fellow poets write new poetry and have a safe place to share their poetry and experiment. How this workshop would run: Groups shouldn't exceed 5 people, so if there were more folks then we would split into smaller groups. Everyone, if they so choose …

This is a group for anyone interested in writing Middle Grade and Young Adult stories and novels. We will meet twice a month; one time to quietly read and then openly critique 8-12 pages from something you're working on, and the other time to just take time away from our busy day to focus on writing for an hour or two. I'd like to find 5-8 other writers who want to form a little community to help each other and improve our own writing, while sharing successes. You do not have to be published to …

Let's get together and write. Bring markers, tools, anything that you know makes a good line and get to it. Calligraphers, graffiti writers, brush letterers, informal writers with bad handwriting, design and type lovers should all show up to this. Writing is freedom through form, and we can make beauty without worrying about whether it looks perfect. If you have a specific way of writing, it might be fun to teach the group what and how you write. Hope to see you there.

This is a group for people who have a passion for writing and would like to share that passion with others. Whether you write prose, poetry, science fiction, humor or fantasy, come join us!

Metaphor is always with us in: what we read and write; what we see in media, film, T.V. and photography; in all forms of the arts, including the art of telling our stories from poetry to cultural fables to personal story, but it is also embedded in psychology and education. Metaphors are powerful and enrich our lives, but they also can have destructive impacts or sell us down the garden path making us think we need things that we don't. This Meetup will look at the art of metaphor. I will bring …

Whether you're a bona fide fledgling adult or a tried-and-true young adult at heart, you are welcome to this writing/reading/all-around literary meetup in the Twin Cities. Based upon the interests of group members, we will tailor our meetings to reading, creative writing, or a mixture of both. All genres, not just Young Adult, will be appreciated here. Come and join us if you want to make friends, make art, and marvel at the wonders of the written word.

Interested in movies? This group will cover everything involved in making movies from the idea to writing, producing, directing, editing, and finally showing the film. Anything and everything involved in making movies is fair game. We might even watch a movie from time to time.

The Hub is a community based organization that draws attention, support, and opportunities for writers, artists, and readers living south of the Twin Cities. It is intended to provide a frame for participants to connect, share, and practice their chosen mediums and connect participants with other creative events. As well as to introduce participants to others who share and support their interest. The Hub is a spin off meet-up group loosely based off a college organization that is unique to Dakot …

Connecting professionals passionate about small business growth and marketing to come together and create content, host events that educate and inspire business owners and marketers. We want to support each other in our content creation knowing this will help our businesses and the ones we serve. Content ideas include: Seminars, writing a book, writing white papers, writing blog posts, holding networking events, hosting speakers, holding workshops, doing goodwill, and with more ideas to come!

Designing and writing quality automation is more than just a tool. It's understanding your environment, your culture and what you need to create a functioning, automated ecosystem. This group is for anyone trying to write automation and will hopefully branch beyond tooling debates into thoughtful discussions on strategy and techniques for writing beautiful automation as well as enabling others in your organization to do the same.

This is a group for entrepreneurs and business owners with an emphasis on internet, software, SaaS, computers, and similar tech startups. These roundtable discussions are conversations about the challenges of growing a business: BUSINESS FINANCING: Angel Investors / Venture Capital, Bootstrapping, Funding, Loans BUSINESS MODELS: Brick-and-Mortar, Choosing a Business Model, eCommerce, Online Business, SaaS, Part-Time Business, Social Entrepreneurship BUSINESS PLANNING: Startup Costs, Business Str …

It's the poem I never wrote..Well I wrote it  but I crumbled it.. Still I think about it.... So don't crumble it but share it with us over coffee, wine, food, and good company.

We're a group of creative folk, working together to bring art to everyone. Remember, you don't have to be an artist to create art! We'll be starting with monthly art events and hopefully moving to more and bigger events, projects, activities and creations. Join us! We're looking for new members - artists, creators, dreamers, and doodlers. We'll see you soon!

Hello! This group is for more or less seasoned screenwriters. We will come together in order to encourage each other with new and on-going projects. Members will also have an opportunity to help each other with the actual production and presentation of their works - either in staged-readings or actual shoots. I started the Paris Screenwriters Meetup, which is still on-going and is being led by our co-organizer. I have relocated (at least temporarily) to Minneapolis and would love to get togeth …

Transmedia Twin Cities is about getting artists, musicians, educators, graphic designers, actors and people from all walks of life creating stories that engage through multiple facets. Transmedia is fundamentally about leveraging multiple platforms and mediums to tell a story or build an interactive experience. In most cases, projects require the collaboration of people with very different skill sets and specific expertise.

Do you need encouragement to set and acheive realistic goals for 2013? This is an accountability group. We will help each write SMART goals, develop steps to reach our goals and identify barriers which block the achievement of the goals. Additionally the group members will decide on methods to hold each other accountable. This is a member driven group gently moderated by a Life Coach.

This is a group for all persons interested in discussing the TV Drama Breaking Bad. Who exactly is Walter Hartwell White? What are his motivations now? What are the moral implications? What options are left? What of Jesse Bruce Pinkman? Isn't he equally guilty? Is he to be pitied? What of his Wife, Skylar? There are only EIGHT episodes left starting July 14, 2013. What will Walt's brother-in-law do now that he finally knows? What about the Heisenberg principle? What about the beauty of the show …

This is a group designed for people who freestyle rap or would like to start. This group is for showing off your creative talent and supporting others doing the same. Trading off verses, rap battles, improv activities to loosen us up - whatever. Let's partake in a lesser-know and absolutely beautiful art form. All genders, skin colors and skill levels welcome.

MSP Visionaries runs meet-ups which expand the mind, support your business and life goals and increase your ability to create the life and lifestyle you want. Join us as we take a journey into your limiting beliefs and obliterate them, gain support in nurturing your dreams, complete that business plan or finish the book you always say you'll write "someday." Make someday - now!

Minnesota Writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Magical Realism, Horror -- If you're exploring the worlds beyond mainstream literature, MinnSpec welcomes you. Come to network, hear readings from works in progress, swap story critiques, and talk shop.  Our members range from those just starting out to established authors with multiple book contracts. Want to know more? Check our About Page, or read one of our group's anthologies!

My name is Marty, I started dancing 4 years ago, I compete as an amateur in Pro Am and Am Am competitions around the MidWest and I am also a Board Member for USA Dance-Mn, Dancing changed my life....I have lost 90 lbs, found God again, I now have friends around the world, I am writing a book called Reinventing Marty. I love meeting new people, exploring new dances, and most importantly I love to have fun. Being a competitive dancer I will not be able to attend all events I post and I dance with …

One World Community Choir &  Social Club Welcome!  We meet every Monday night throughout the year, and you can join anytime.  Next session starts January 7th. with Betsy Sansby & Alan Dworsky No matter how long it's been since you sang in a choir, if you love to sing in the shower, can carry a tune, and are looking for a place to sing with your clothes on, there's a spot for you in the One World Community Choir. Join anytime. No auditions required! Repertoire: You'll learn a mixture of beautifu …

You know who you are. You see the dry cleaner sorting though a stack of paper slips and you think "I could write an app for that". You want to measure the steps in a process and improve it with an open source platform. We come up with ideas. We come up with ways to realize those ideas. We build web apps. We want to highlight trusted tools of the trade, cool projects that you are contributing to, and review cutting edge technology. When we have a solid group it would be great to pool together our …