everyone is out here saying their writer friends are competition... and I just want to argue with that.

Yes, your writer friends might be running for the same market as you

yes, you might be aiming for that same publishing house

but that doesn't make them your enemy

you can't just turn on your friends.

my best friend is a writer. if we were going for the same publishing house and she got in when I didn't, I wouldn't look at it like she beat me. I'd be FREAKING PUMPED for her.

And I know she would feel same if it were reversed.

we aren't aiming for the same markets at this point in time anyway, but even if we were... so what?

I support her. She supports me.

We're best friends, critique partners, alpha readers, and everything in between for each other...

she's not my competition and I am not hers

so don't make enemies of your writing friends.

if they're sabotaging you or guilting you, that's a different story.

but you need those friends who understand everything you're going through. don't make them your competition.

lift each other up

you need your writer friends.

the moment you isolate them in an effort to get fame and success is the moment you compromise what writing and storytelling is really even about.