It's a real shame I'm not richer - or I would willingly pay for us all to take a group holiday on some paradise isle.
It's funny, I've only realised, since coming here, how in many ways my life has been easier than some in relation to the whole gender thing (which strangely I didn't really understand before).
Yet I still have days when I get down and discouraged about other things. True these days my issues are not gender, but my struggle to transition from a technical person into an author has so many similarities that you wouldn't believe how much encouragement I have got from the friendships that I have built on here with people like you, and indeed all of those you mention.
Today is one of the down days, when the prospect of ever getting published, or seeing one of my screenplays accepted, seems so far away that I feel as if I will never get there, but I know I must not give up.
So yeah - it's good to be connected and I too wish we could have more than a virtual hug
