Moving Forward; or, Is There Life After Mean People?

If you're reading this blog, it's likely you fall into one of three categories:

1. You're a member of the AW in-crowd. You aren't likely to be an average AW member, because average AW members aren't considered good enough to know about the Sekrits (TM).
2. You're an active, engaged, and curious member of the broader online writing community. By now, this blog has been mentioned on several other sites dedicated to fighting "mean people" behavior.
3. You've been recently mistreated on AW and found your way here through referral or a search engine.

I want to address this post to all three groups, because they all have one thing in common: they've been victims of mean people at some point in their lives.