be hard if you're not a writer yourself - i totally get that. i often get some (extremely) well-meaning questions that leave me up a creek with no paddle, and just take an awkward situation from bad to worse. so - here are three things not to say to a writer, so hopefully you can avoid making your already precarious social situation more precarious still. you completely care about the writers in your life, but you don't always know what to say. hopefully i can help.
i know this seems like a harmless question, right? this person is a writer - of course she (let's pretend it's a she) is writing 