Wordsworth worked closely with Samuel Coleridge and their friendly competition inspired both to greater and greater work.
Similarly, Lord Byron was intimate friends with the poet Percy
Shelley and his wife, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.
The productive and collaborative relationships among artists was not isolated to the Romantic age.
Modernists like Virginia Woolf reached out to
other English writers such as E.M Forrester early in her career while Gertrude Stein brought together expatriates like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ezra Pound in her famous Paris salons.
C. S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien shared ideas about fantasy fiction as co-members of The Inklings, a literary discussion group at
Oxford University, while Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs broke new literary ground together as the Beat Generation.
Writing is a solitary act, but none of these great writers wrote, published, or marketed their fiction in isolation. They reached out, shared ideas, and furthered their literary careers by making strong connections with other
writers.
That's why I'm excited to invite you to join a exclusive community of passionate and dedicated authors.
Your pal in writing,
Kevin T. Johns, writing coach
