You showcased your work for me my dear friend.

And it was excellent and exquisite.

It flowed so beautifully in many ways,

It deserves to be published.

It highlighted and illustrated to me all the ways mine is not.

It’s not because I feel any shred of jealousy.

I expressed this to you.

I’ve been toying with the idea of giving up for awhile as I don’t feel like I have the talent to go very far.

I’m only continuing to write because of your kindness and thoughtfulness.

You praised my work my dear friend and said it would be a loss of a talent if I stopped and our work covered different areas.

I’m only continuing to write because of your kindness and support my dear friend,

And I want to thank you for that!