– a guest posting to SBWC’s Blog There is something magical in validation from peers. For most of us, our lives are a quest, in some form, for exactly that. Validation that our efforts, beliefs, values, talents, friendships, are not in vain. If we’re lucky we find our tribe, and within that larger group, a select collection of lunatics that will invest in us for that journey. Here’s the result of one such quest: I have attended the Santa Barbara Writers Conference off and on since 2005. The how and why I ended up there involves being dragged by my…