they will say: you’re not talented enough. you don’t have an original cell in your body. you don’t measure up to the ones who came before you. your feelings are shallow. you’re whiny. you’re a hack. you’re a whiny hack. none of that could have possibly happened to you. . . . but if it did, then you embellished it. & it’s probably your fault anyhow. - & you will keep writing anyway.
