"Self-taught" is another word for uneducated
Autodidacts have more credibility with lay-people than professors do, and we often abuse that trust
I’ve been feeling inadequate while writing my Great Books book. My friends are like, “Girl, that’s just imposter syndrome.”
But I never had imposter syndrome while writing novels. I always knew my work was better than most of the stuff out there. And novel-writing doesn’t require an education. There’s no training program, no professional course, in novel…
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