Writers Groups
Are Great For Writing Resources and Support For Writers

Ask any successful writer about the main contributing facts to their success and chances are that they’ll say, a good grounding of information in writing and publishing, hard work and regular, ongoing support and interaction with other writers as found in writers groups.

Whether you’re only able to scrawl down writing ideas in stolen minutes or are able to spend hours making uniform shapes on a computer screen, writing time tends to be more productive when you’re surrounded by silence.

Even when we’re not writing, being in the company of others can be hard because we’re distracted from what’s happening around us by the ideas pounding through our heads. Writing is, in essence a solitary and isolated pastime.

Yet writing also requires a certain amount of sharing, whether it be in person, on-line or over the phone.

Writers need to know that there are other people out there, such as those in writers groups, who’ll discuss the merits of our idea for an article.

We need to know there’s someone who can inspire us towards chapter 15 when we are floundering on chapter 5.

We need to know how others have picked themselves up after receiving one of many heartbreaking rejection letters and we need to have someone who’ll jump up and down with us when we’re sent a cheque or contract in the mail.

There are many people who accept the highs, lows and doubts of living a writer’s life, but I wonder if only another writer can truly understand them. Members of writers groups know what you are going through.

But mixing with like-minded people gives us more than support and motivation. We also acquire vital knowledge and have the opportunity of receiving feedback on our work.

Talking with others in writers groups who have gone before us and those who walk behind us provides us with an invaluable network of details in the ever-changing writing world.

For one person to keep up-to-date with every publisher’s requirements, every competition, every request for work and every changing nuance is impossible, even if we’re only looking at one single genre or one form of publishing.

But in writers groups, we have access to more of these details and as such, more opportunities to become published.

With the advance of technology and the household use of the internet there are now so many different and accessible ways to network with other writers, face to face, online, through mail, taking part in writers groups and so on that there is simply no excuse why a writer has to work alone – unless of course they want to.


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