Writing is a lonely business, just you against the blank page, wrestling with words alone in your kitchen or dining room, or if you have the space at home, an "office".  You need the solitude, the absence of interruptions in order to craft your world, to build tall mountains and dirty cities heaving with characters.  Some days you get to dinner time and realise that the only adult conversation you've had is the one you spent half a day lovingly crafting between your two main characters. ButWriting is more than the writer.  It's the editor that tells you where you've gone wrong, it's the initial readers who offer the first emotional reactions, it's the cover designer who will do their best to make sure people are attracted to the book before even knowing what it's about,  it's the proof reader who makes sure everything looks spot on, it's the book shops that take the risk and stock the work.  Behind every writer is an amazing hard working group doing their best to make sure the end result meets the writers vision.  I don't think I fully appreciated that until Troy's Possibilities was into its second draft.  That's when the importance of the right people became apparent.  It's not just enough to have an editor, it's got to be one you can trust, likewise a proof reader, a designer etc.