To be faire, I think we're all idiots!
It is because you think if you own publishing you can control what’s printed, what’s written, what’s read? Well, lotsa luck, sir. It’s a common delusion of tyrants. Writers and readers, even as they suffer from it, regard it with amused contempt. by Margaret Atwood from her essay “Staying Awake” (Harper Magazine 2008) Sunday Sentence:…
Jon Winokur (@AdviceToWriters) 2013-02-17 19:37 The only way to become a better writer is to become a better person. BRENDA UELAND #amwriting #writing I ran across the above tweet yesterday and was immediately struck by the wrongness of it, though it took me a little while to understand why it was wrong. In concept, it should be a…