Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what George Saunders said
writing Prose as thinking: writing well, writing by hand while a model offers to do it, and who will still be able to.
I do, yes, get into “funks like that” and I do just what you describe: I go find some writing that I know is good and check in against that.
Where this was said
↗On the Perils of Self-Assessing...georgesaunders.substack.com
All 6 korrents from this piecethis one is 1st
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Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?
I hold this tooShared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.