The Touch-Tone Critique Meeting

On November 18th, 1963, the Bell System introduced the Cerebrum Communicator (CC)... Just kidding, of course, because the CC was introduced in 1967's "The President Analyst" with James Coburn (pictured above held prisoner by The Phone Company, who seek his leverage to convince the President to back their plan to put a CC in every American brain). Great movie.

But a wonderful technological achievement was introduced on November 18th, 1963, and that was Touch-Tone dialing. Officially, it's called Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) technology, and it's still in use today, although cell phones don't use it for dialing. Far out, eh?

Technology is an amazing thing. Imagine if we were writing our stories with a stone chisel, or painting on cave walls. Technology has given us printing presses, typewriters, ballpoint pens, computers, laptops, tablet computers, laser printers, cell phones, the internets, and software galore. And of course, even that artificial stuff.

In celebration of the gift of technology, we shall meet for critique on the evening of Monday, November 18th, 2024.

Both critique slots have been claimed at this time. We have submissions from Christina and Daniel to evaluate.

If you'd like to have your own fiction critiqued at a future meeting, AND you have attended at least one critique night in the last three (3) months, then you may secure one of our future critique slots for ten (10) double-spaced pages (12 pt. Times New Roman) of your new or recently-edited fiction, which needs constructive feedback, by sending a PM to one of our CFW admins here at our Meetup page, or at our private Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/215904102149512).

All others, we ask you to please attend and lend your ears and voices to the discussions. If you plan to attend: RSVP (very important!), Attend (very important), Hear the Pages, Share your Thoughts, and Help your fellow Writers. All of these too: very important !!!

See you all then! Long Live Critique !!!

P.S. We have no dues or fees, but we do have expenses (Meetup and Zoom are not free). Thanks to your generous contributions we have collected enough to cover all of 2024 and 2025. Thank you!!! We are unlikely to "pass the hat" until 2026. Thank goodness!!!