Write Away

I can understand that. I have that kind of anxiety about other things. I think because I am a teacher by profession and so much of my job involves writing and having other people read and comment on that writing in a variety of contexts (whether it's students reading material I've written for a class or an editor reading a lit review I wrote or my chair reading the narrative I wrote about how awesome I am and need tenure LOL), I lost any intense anxiety about feedback on my writing early on and out of necessity.

I know I am lucky with my group. They are awesome. Two of the four of us have MFAs in creative writing, I have a Ph.D. in Victorian lit, we all have BAs in English, and one of us has an MA in Library Science. Three of us are published in some capacity, one of us prolifically so, and I've held several editorial positions. I am surrounded by awesome. But we self-selected so that helps. We weren't stuck with each other.