4/4 "Readers might well feel they deserve a warning too, for sane lovers of literature who read this book are likely to experience fury and even despair by the time they finish."

#freedomtowrite #freedomtoread

www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

3/4 "The result is a devastating work of scholarship that commits the ultimate transgression of failing to include the trigger warnings so cherished by the targets of the author’s indictment.

2/4 "Mr. Szetela lays bare this remarkable phenomenon in “That Book Is Dangerous! How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing.”

4. Take risks, do something artistically dangerous

5. Sit down and don't get up until you've written something

6. If there's a problem in your story, cut it out. Discard what's not working rather than try to fix it

7. Writers are people who finish books

#writing #writingtips

It's an opinion piece. Even indie columnists can ask that kind of question.

4. Choose your type of progress [always be moving in a direction, mostly forward]

5. Prime your mind [do something else before you write]

Not that I believe them, but who says they're making a nonstop trip or that there aren't hand-offs to other boats along the way? Seems like you can pick better evidence to make your case.