finally found what I've been looking for

As a writer, I have struggled with writing groups and classes where only positive feedback is given. If I wanted nothing more than positive strokes, I would show my work to friends and family. I wouldn't even bother with other writers or writing teachers. It's taken several years, but finally I've found both a writers group and a writing workshop where constructive criticism is the main course, and I can't get enough.

Intelligent responses from a variety of perspectives is the most helpful contribution that can be made to a writer. That is, if that writer is committed to producing the highest quality of work they are capable of; if what's at stake is the work, and not the writer's ego.

I'm very happy today to occupy a seat in a room of writer's who tell you what they really think.

Writing "The Diary Of A Child Molester"

They say you should write what you know. Well I guess I know pretty well what it's like to be an abused child. But it's not easy to write about it. Yet it is a subject that needs to be written about. A subject that hides in the shadows and needs to be taken out into the light and looked at. Looked squarely at, without turning away. And decisions need to be made.

So the story unfolds. And writing it takes something out of me.