writers should read. I think literacy ought to be a requirement for the job, and the fact that this is divisive among modern writers makes me want to flense the skin from my body

the fatal flaw of people going "Tamsyn Muir started off with Homestuck Fanfic and now she's a bestseller" is that if you read her work, she's obviously read Coleridge, Wilde, Shakespeare, and the Bible, and gleaned from it expressions of love and tragedy that simply aren't in your wattpad fanfics.