my main site @VICE essay about collecting debt is old news now (it came out in 2015), but i'm still surprised they left plenty of literary flourishes in herehttps://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8gka45/my-time-as-a-professional-debt-collector-showed-me-the-worst-in-humanity-428 …
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nothing "great" will ever come of it, but i'm cool with that, because for now this big web of meaning exists -- has been sold to finance my weight equipment, in fact! -- and i get to keep adding to it with each new piece
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i mean, my vision for the writing i do, such as it is, is that every piece will contain every other piece, over and over 'til death do us part, etc.
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whether it's recalling the intimate details of 1000 debtors or 500 work orders or 100 cases or every minute of a childhood emblazoned on my long-term memory, that's really what i do: i weave together all this cluttered material. i don't write anything "standalone"
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i really do love writing. i wouldn't do it for free anymore, but i'm grateful that i have some good editors who pay me to keep doing it, and then let me keep doing what i want
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i mean, seriously, if you go through my nonfiction, you'll see turns of phrase lifted verbatim from my fiction, lines like "missed happiness by a few minutes at some appointed destination," plus callbacks to "e-wrestling," "hand grippers," and "jesse ventura"
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i usually don't express cornball sentiments like this, but i'm grateful to my current group of editorspic.twitter.com/YdaeMGFga4
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