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Our reading
Writers are never writing for everyone; their choices always pick out an intended reader.
Their wordsthis idea that we are never writing for everyone, simply by virtue of the choices we are making. Not everyone is our intended reader; some readers get to eavesdrop.
Our reading
Writers need not take all the feedback they get; knowing the core of the work is part of writing it.
Their wordsI suggest that not all feedback is feedback they have to take; that knowing the core of your work, and the voices that might nurture it, is as much a part of the writing as putting words to the page.
Their wordsTo dispel notions of writing as toil, as penance, or as pain. It can be—but it doesn’t have to be. And it doesn’t have to happen alone.
Their wordsTake your writing seriously, but don’t be so serious about it.
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