On-line
It's good to be meeting people who write all the time and read all the
time too. Everyone who is part of the great swirling mass of text and
information that is the on-line writer's community seems really
friendly and welcoming and the are all willing to give you the benefit
of the doubt and to give you their constructive criticism. When you
ask your friends who don't write it's great to get good feedback from
them but they just don't truly understand what it is you are looking
for from them when you ask them to critique a work -- the are afraid
to hurt your feelings and sometimes you need them to; who hasn't sat
down and read an early piece and wondered at how self-indulgent they
are capable of being? If you write and you deny that then you're a
liar. Writing is by its very nature self-indulgence, but if you can
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