I have just spent two days in workshops with the incredible, warm, wonderful, sharing and incredible [yes, I did say it twice and I meant to] Kathryn Heyman.Kathryn is an Austalian author who flits between England and Australia and she was in Brisbane over the weekend. Knowing the calibre of the woman I spent the money, flew down and revelled in learning at the feet of a master!
OK, maybe the hyperbole is a bit much but it was all worth it.
It's important that writers have contact with other writers. You need to be mercenary about any opportunity to be involved with writers - that can be workshops, your State's writer's centre, a couple of people you met at a workshop who you think might be able to help you to critique your work [and you theirs] or just to have coffee and talk writing with and have them 'get' you.
This is almost as imperative as a writer having to read. No writer can function, grow or better their craft in a vacuum. You have to get it on the paper on your own but you need to have a community to support you when the loneliness and self-doubt is overwhelming.
Get out there and meet some other writers!!
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