I’m excited for the two “with promise” and hope we get to find soon out who they are. I’m also anxious to hear your general advice accross the board.

Your comment about ideas being the key thing to differenciate a writer from the crowd was really encouraging for me, because I feel that is my personal greatest strength (and it helped to validate my own story). I have actually been told the opposite by another writer – that everyone has ideas and the real key is in the writing. If it IS true that ideas themselves are the critical thing, it gives me hope.

Thanks again for taking the time to think about us unpublished writers and really give people a chance.