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About Writing in Community


     Writing is a solitary act. We must do it alone. We must go into our own singular place of creation, where we sit long hours before or computer, or with pen in hand, notebook on table, and dip into our own well. Even when we write together we must go to the page alone. Even when we collaborate, each of us must pull needles from our own internal haystack.

      Yet for all the ideas of writer as solitary, tortured soul alone in her cramped garret or shambled studio working into the night, in reality writers, like the rest of humanity, are basically communal creatures. We search out our own kind and build community as naturally as we breathe. It is within community we connect with others and, through our connecting, find home.

      With few exceptions, we are not hermits or loners. We are social creatures. And, at the level of our creative efforts, we seek teachers, masters, and our fellows. Who else speaks our language, who else can understand, who else can help us over the high, rocky passes and through the valleys of our own shadows? It is too scary and hard to go it alone.

      Writers working with other writers is an integral and necessary part of the writing process. So much of what we do we must do alone. Thus finding our own kind to share the joy and the pain, the exhilaration and the drudgery is sometimes a necessary survival mechanism. A writing community that supports and nurtures us and cheers us on is what makes the solitary work bearable.

     
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