Psychology Today | 19.01.2026 08:51
As a writer, I depend on my agent and my editors to help me polish my prose. But before my work’s ready enough to give to them, I first count on writer friends. I have three great ones—one is good with psychology, one knows structure, and one I happily pay to do a genius developmental edit. But sometimes, when I am feeling most insecure, I ask other writers for help, and that insecurity, I realized, has driven me to writers who, well, who are very much like my mother and sister were in wanting to tell me who I am.
