Writing is hard enough as it is. The self-doubt. The sitting. The pondering. The staring into space. The writing. The rewriting. Avoiding the reviews. Reading the reviews.

Why make writing more difficult than it needs to be by doing it alone?

Tomi Adeyemi explains that as much as writers may think solitude is always the key, this is more of a group effort than many understand:

You need a community to succeed. In the back of every book is an acknowledgments page full of all the people it took to get that writer to the book you’re holding. With the internet, there are so many ways to connect with other writers who will be some of your best friends and best sources of support for your entire life. Push yourself out of your comfort zone and go meet them!

You heard her. Now go see if that writer’s group which meets at the local coffee shop is looking for new members.