Why it's OK that you don't like everything I write.....

Perhaps not all of you consider writing to be art, or only wish to consider it art once it crosses some magic threshold only occupied my Hemmingway, Thoreau, Franzen and the like.


That's your prerogative.


I recently had an experience, while not entirely surprising, that reinforced my resolve to become the absolute best writer I can be.


Not just necessarily to sell a ton of books, to get