The Obligation of Writing

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Lately, I’ve come to realize just how much of writing involves social obligations:

We join writer’s groups for support and are obligated to participate and help.We pre-read for others, and in turn, they are obligated to pre-read for us.We have to juggle obligations with our editors, artists, and so on.We obligate ourselves to speak at conventions – then wonder how we signed up to do three p...