A Desperate Plea From A Desperate Writer
huffingtonpost.com – Saturday September 3, 2016
Whether this sounds snarky or not it needs to be said, and I guess I’m going to be the one to say it.
PLEASE STOP TALKING SH*T TO WRITERS.
This is a desperate plea from a writer trying her hardest to remain a pacifist, but some people make it hard. While I juggle edits and the general neurosis that goes with trying to tell stories people will read in a world where, to quote Dr. Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters, “Print is dead,” you dum dums say things that make me understand why some of the best writers of our time went a little batty.
Let’s examine, shall we?
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