Thank you very much for your reply, Bella. i hugely appreciated your warm and supportive words. Take care and all the best!

I love this piece and it makes me feel a lot better in terms of where I am now. I've written two novels and both of them came from a real surge and gush of creativity but the one I'm currently working on is a very different thing. I don't write...

Thanks so much for this piece, Christina. It really resonated with me. My second novel is about to be published this year but it's actually the first novel I wrote. I began writing it in 1997, rewrote it in 2004, rewrote and edited it again in 2013...

I loved reading this post and thanks so much for writing so honestly and so proudly! You've got an absolute right to be proud. It was beautiful and timely for me to read this so thank you very much and best of luck with all your success now and in...

Thank you for this delightful and honest article, Ellen. I taught theatre in universities for many levels and always instilled in my students that they had the right to fail but when it comes to myself as a writer, I am far less forgiving. Having...

How refreshing it was to read your post, Nancy, and to discover that I'm not the only one who feels a little overwhelmed - or sometimes under-whelmed - by the talk of 'online presence', 'tweeting'. 'facebooking', 'self-promotion' blah blah blah. I...

Bella Mahaya Carter: Glad I reminded you of that amazing book and brilliant it came at the right time for you :) Lovely to have you as a friend on SheWrites and all the very best!

Thanks very very much, Bella, for this beautiful and inspiring piece. It connects perfectly with a book I'm currently re-reading - The Power of Now. Fantastic to read your article at the same time and thanks for this :)

what a relief to hear the cooling process can last up to a year. After writing over 50,000 words of my third novel, I got well and truly stuck. I used to be someone who wrote every day so your article made me feel much less guilty about taking some...