publishing
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Publication is not the point–but publish anyway.
Reading my blog, you might think I’m very anti-publishing. It’s true that I don’t think publication is the magic gold medal that we all once secretly believed it was. And it definitely means a lot less than non-writers think it does. (I keep a secret mental list of the family and friends who had zero interest in my…
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Success when you aren’t going to Succeed
Sometimes I think that if writers lived in a rarified environment of other artists, the notion of ‘success’ would be less esteem-killing. But I also think we’d be really, really irritating. And broke. When I was last among a group of writer-friends, the Carver/Lish controversy came up, and someone asked, “If someone was going to…
Sonal Champsee 