By Susan Reichert, Editor-in-Chief, Southern Writers Magazine
Never think you are alone on the
road to success as an author. You’re not. Many people are walking with you.
Look around you will see family, friends and associates. However, their numbers
are limited. There is another group on that road with you, they are your
readers. This group is much larger and hopefully growing. I have one more group
that is important to your success, authors. Yes other writers.
Experience has taught us success
is not an occurrence so much as a process. Regardless of where you are in the
process of becoming successful and selling many books, there are always writers
ahead of you and writers behind you. As you progress forward on this road, do
not fail to turn around and give attention to those who have not come as far as
you.
Funny thing about mentoring
someone, you not only are helping them but you find you have increased your
abilities as a writer. Someone told me the act of mentoring is neither
completely gratuitous nor completely out of self-interest. Rather, it
propagates the success process through others. This creates a chain of
professionalism, which strengthens with each new link, added.
No successful trait we possess is
lost by sharing our knowledge with others, matter of fact, very few things are
as rewarding as watching someone else become successful and know you had a hand
in it.
I see this when my husband gets a
phone call from someone he has helped. (He is retired and works with our
community literacy program helping people study for their high school
diplomas.)
Generously sharing knowledge with
other writers is beneficial to you. It strengthens your foundation and it
expands into the world layers of other successful people. Self-made? Not
really. There are people who helped along the way,
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