Coming out of the writing closet – an act of arrogance?

I may have said some of this before, but hey, since this blog has now been going seven (yes seven!) years I think I’m entitled to repeat myself from time to time! Today’s topic is, what makes it so hard for beginner writers to come ‘out of the closet’? I had forgotten how much it took for me to pitch up at my very first writing group until my writing workshop last Wednesday when one participant said how she had ‘nearly changed her mind’ as she walked across the car-park and gone home rather t...