Feeling Isolated As A Writer? Maybe You Need to Buddy Up

By Donna Cameron

Nobel prize winning author Olga Tokarczuk likened writing to solitary confinement. Fellow laureate Saul Bellow asserted that his chosen profession had made him a loner.

While most of us have supportive friends and family, they may not understand that when we’re staring off into space, or frozen halfway up or down the staircase (forgetting entirely which way we were headed), we are writing.

A writer needs at least one friend who is also a writer.

It’s as essential...