friends

have you written at www.mydeardiary.com? Personally, I found this a great site to meet and get to know other writers. Check it out (if you haven't already). Mostly, it's choke full of 15 year old american slasher chicks (this is only a recent occurence - since they introduced coloured text, :) but there are some gifted people there. You just got to sift them out.