Well, hi there! Fellow writers and aspiring authors will know what I mean when I say that writing (fiction in particular), is all-consuming. The characters we create live and breathe in our minds, even more so when we are not paying attention to them. Over the years I've been working on two novels (genres YA speculative fiction and literary fiction for women) and am now ready to send out into the world again after many rewrites and edits. And even after all of this I know that it's still not really ready and it will never be. Editing is a never-ending process. It's not easy to send professionals the labour of your love (it must be love - no one in their right mind does this for the money, right?). The harsh reality is that your creative writing will be critically analysed while being poked at with red ink, perhaps even doodled over. They will glare sideways at your unknown name and frown disgustedly when they see you have no writing credentials before shoving it into ...