That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.
