TWO (CONTRADICTING) STATEMENTS I OFTEN HEAR FROM AUTHORS

As part of my work here -- and, really, just general interest -- I belong to several writers' groups on Facebook. It's a great resource for me; when I was planning out my content for next year I scrolled through posts to find interesting questions to answer or topics to talk about (including this one).

But one thing I also noticed were two types of statements (well, one is technically a question), and they came up frequently. In my opinion, these statements directly contradict eac...