As a child, I never had to worry about purposefully surrounding myself with people my own age. The school system did that for me. Granted, I did have to go out of my way to make friends with those peers. But having common interests, common activities, and common class schedules helped with that part. Building …
One of the biggest benefits to being in a writing community is the amount of feedback you can receive on your projects. Revision on your own is all well and good, but you know your story like the back of your hand. It is easy to glaze over the parts that don’t make sense because …
I don’t know about you, but before I studied writing I had a specific, singular vision of what being a writer was. In my mind’s eye I’d conjure up the image of someone locked in an office, curtains half drawn, lazy dust-motes drifting in shafts of sunlight, clacking away furiously at a typewriter or keyboard. …
