Your Writing Isn’t Timeless. #amwriting

It’s not uncommon for authors to admit that they hope their work lives on after them, a sort of immortality that doesn’t require cooperation from the undead. I used to think it was a rather sweet sentiment—and I still do, to a point—until some authors insisted that is the one and only goal of all writing.

I disagree.

In fact, I will go so far to say that all writing isn’t exactly timeless. At least, not in the way that a reader can pick it up a hundred years from now and feel like it takes plac...