Not The Same Twenty-Four Hours: A Brief Rant by Katherine Blakeman

I am writing this as an allusion to a recent controversy on Book Twitter, which has started a discourse on whether writers should write every day. One comment I read, by someone who purports the answer ‘yes’ to that dilemma, said ‘We all have the same twenty-four hours in a day, after all!’

No. No, we do not. That sentence – however well-meant – encapsulates privileged ableism in just a handful of words. And this brief rant will explain why. (DISCLAIMER: This is entirely raw and unedited. If I ...