Writer's Clique?

I decided to be less of an anti-social writer and went to a local writer's group meeting today. It was okay. The speaker was very interesting and the people were nice, but it seemed geared toward beginners. I know I haven't been published and I don't have an agent, but I don't think I'm a beginner. I've been writing seriously for over five years, and I'm working on my sixth book! I have some idea of what I'm doing. I'm just too lazy to write new queries and send them.

I did met a woman with a critique group that I think I might join. It depends on how good the critiques are, I guess. I am looking forward to it. And I think I will go to the next meeting for the talk about view points. I hope it tells me something I don't already know.

And that gets me to my point, the writer clique. Are writer's cliquey? I think so. And I think published authors flock toward other published authors, while unpubs flock toward the pubs too. Pubs=published, not a real pub! I'm not complaining. It makes sense. You want to talk to people whom you have stuff in common with, right? If I get published I wonder if I'll do that too? I'll have to wait and find out.

Oh, but I did win something. I got an audio book written and performed by my dreamy Stephen Colbert. *sigh* I hope it's funny!