“Before you have a support structure, you can ask people who know and like you. If you've found a writing community online, you can find a critique partner, take a writing class, or join a writing group. It usually involves a trade, as crit. takes time.”— Delilah S. Dawson, twitter.com
“Realtalk: Writing is a career. It has a community. You have colleagues. To suggest that you don't need or shouldn't want any of these things is ridiculous. Colleagues help each other out.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com