A note to my writer friends. If you die and leave me with your brilliant unfinished manuscripts, I will burn them.

One benefit of being an aspiring writer is that you enjoy many literary works much more because all the thinking you’ve done about words and stories has given you the ability to detect finer differences between works and to appreciate a given work for the things it is doing that are new and original (and hard to do). However, one cost of being an aspiri…
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