Writing About Writing Sucks

Thursday, August 23, 2007 | comments (0)
Articles like this depress me. If you listen to the cynicism, it's pretty hard to plod on. But if you don't read stuff like this, if you aren't at least a little bit cynical yourself, then it makes you out of touch with reality, overly idealistic. Either way, writing about writing is usually pretty useless stuff.

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