Support is Priceless - an IWSG post

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  This post is part of the Insecure Writers Support Group (IWSG), a great place to share troubles and triumphs with fellow writers. To find more blogs on this hop, and to sign up yourself head over to Alex J Cavanaugh's blog to find out more. He's definitely one worth following.


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 About two weeks ago I published a post about the struggles I'd been having keeping up with everything that's going on in my life.
I have study going on, this blog and some writing stuff that I'm trying to make more time for, and they are all things that are important to me. In some way or other they each give me some purpose, providing the escapism I need to help me relax and be myself.

As you well know, there is still the everyday world to contend with. I also have a full time job, as I know many others do, a family and home life all to be juggled too. It's tiring work keeping all those balls in the air, but if you can manage it then it's all worthwhile. After all, if you haven't got to put even a little bit of effort in then it's probably not worth doing in the first place.

I had some encouraging and helpful comments in response to this post, and I want to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to those that took the time to help me through. I read each comment a few times, taking on board the advice offered and you have definitely helped me to see through the quagmire and find the light on the other side.

I'm continuing with my studies, after all it's only for another four months and then it's finished. There is an exam at the end but that's a whole different bag of worries. I'm over half way through it now so I'm battling on to get to the end. I just have to keep an eye on my workload and not get myself into a massive frenzy.
I get three months off and then the next part of the course starts in October. This will be a creative writing module, which means I will be able to combine my writing with studying. I won't have to feel guilty about doing one over the other.

The point of this post is to highlight just how valuable it is to have the support of others that have either been through or are currently in the same situation as you. That's why I love this monthly blog hop, it's a chance to help out others where I can, and to share some of my own woes or successes with others.

It can be a lonely place, distance learning and writing by yourself, but even if you can't get to a writers group or tutorial, there is a whole world of like-minded (and possibly crazy, or is that just me?) people to help you through the bad times, and celebrate the good times.


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