Wednesday 7/10/24
C: This is what writing now is.
C: Not writing. Writing is the last thing that writing is now about.
J: It's disgusting
C: No one can write. Takes too much to write well and nothing that people are prepared to do or do do or would even know how to begin to do. So the writing world is now this club: Club Other Things. Club Delusion. No one thinks about their actual writing. As in: What value does my writing have for the world? No one with their fiction in The New Yorker, no one in any online writing sect, no one in any MFA program. No one. It's not about that. It's as much about the actual writing as it is being a jockey who rides elephants in Saharan plains races. Which is to say, not at all.
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