Dedicated to all my fellow writers out there. You’re tired and worked to the bone, and you’re not sure what your next move will be when a bottle washes up on shore with a message in it. The message is for you. Stay strong, the message reads. Keep doing what you’re doing. You are doing great. (You realize that as I’m writing this, I’m hearing The Police singing Message in a Bottle in my head.) We tend to get a lot of inspiration from others — from those we know to those we have never met — who encourage us to persevere, to continue, to not give up. We may…