Being supportive, inspiring, and encouraging.

How many of us writers run into obstacles?

It is a rhetorical question of course, because we all do.

Life throws out those curve balls and we have to be able to adapt and deal with them as they come out of nowhere. We do this in life anyway. It is often frustrating as a writer to have to put what ever we are working on, on the back burner as we live go through what ever it was that took us from our writing and then to get to the point where we can bring it back up to the fire again.

If you are lucky enough to be able to make enough money from your writing to keep you living your dream, I applaud you. Most of us aspiring writers need to work other jobs/careers to pay the bills in order to write. I hope to one day be able to write for a living and make enough to live on full time. I know a lot of writers who have that exact same dream.

For those who have succeeded, I look to you as my role models. Hearing your stories about how you got to be where you are is not only inspirational, it is encouraging me to keep going.

As writers, we are all in this together and we must be able to compliment and give encouragement to each other.

We all have our strengths and our weaknesses. I know I certainly do and I'm constantly working and striving to improve to be the best that I can be, but to do this I need help with my weaknesses, so I can improve on my strengths.

I think it all intertwines together as we all try to reach our personal goals. We need to realize that we can't be the best at everything and we all need help along the way. No one can reach their goals alone.

We are a network, a living breathing organism that needs each other.

After all is said and done it isn't the other writers we are trying to impress, though having the respect of our fellow authors is nice. It is our fan-base, our readers that we are working for. They are the ones who are going to rate us on our work.

Working together, inspiring one another, and helping each other will help all involved.

I want to thank those who have taken the time to help me and encourage me. Without them I wouldn't be where I am today.