I seem to have issues writing without some hand-holding?

ME TOO. I've been showing things to other people constantly nowadays; it's been keeping me going. So no, definitely not just you.

I can do some cheerleading if you ever need it! Like, read some words and say, "YES GOOD WRITE MORE!!" B/c I definitely need that myself. I'm on g-chat a lot of the time, too. ;)