I’ve blogged about my friend and mentor Rachel Solar and now you can read about our friendship in Writers Weekly. (Btw, she has a very cool blog about the intersection of life and baseball.) Rachel and I meet for dinner regularly, but I’m also lucky to have online writer role models who set an awesome example. In addition to all of my 5 Q’s writers, these three gals in particular prove that women writers rock:
Beth Morrissey is an all-around awesome girl, but I especially admire her gutsiness for moving across the Pond to Ireland. She’s tipped me off to some great writing gigs, too.
Jenny Rough is a former lawyer (like Rachel) who reinvented herself as a freelance writer. How cool is that?
Kristen King is a very busy girl but still finds time to help out writers of all levels. Her Query Challenge has given me a major kick in the rear to get out there and get querying!
Who inspires you?
Who amazes me? YOU DO! You’re smart, fun, talented, beautiful, and succesful! Actually, now that I think about it, where do you get off being all of those things AND younger than me? I’m supposed to be the sole red-headed girl wonder in this whole freelance circuit. It’s on, girl, it’s ON.
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Awww. Thanks!
Ah, yes, I forgot to mention that Kristen and I share that special redheaded bond.
I realized somewhat belatedly that this would make a good meme, but there’s so many floating around, I don’t want anyone feeling obligated or overwhelmed. If you’d like to “pay it forward” as Deb Ng would say, write a post about your own inspirations.
Aw, thanks. You inspie me too. All writers do because it takes a lot of guts to do this.
Good point, Jenny.
Hi Susan.
I saw your article about your Mentor Rachel. It inspired me to visit your blog. I visit many of the writing blogs, but never bothered you stop by yours. Dumb move on my part. I have bookmarked your blog. Keep up the great work. I got excited and motivated reading about all your projects.
I would love to talk to you about your marketing job, because I think that’s the direction I am headed in.
Hi Sandra,
Thanks for visiting my blog. Feel free to email me at SusanEJohnston at Gmail dot com (spaces omitted) with any questions!
Susan