“The big question remains the same: will I become totally irrelevant before I become completely useless, or vice versa?” asks this kid doing the work, who has had a posthumous reputation since he was 25 or so
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I was 35 or 36 when I realized I had failed as a writer, that I would never be a writer, that I had done what I could with what I had. It was an odd realization, to be sure, because what would success have looked like?
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There's something extraordinary about this thread -- you managed to say *a lot* in very few words. Not what I expected when I decided to waste a few minutes on Twitter this evening
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Doing the work!
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I read this piece when it was published / thought it was excellent: https://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/all-the-words-i-didn-t-write … I hope you keep writing about writing -- pure catharsis for anyone who's ever considered putting "failed writer" on their business card
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Russ appreciates these too! More to come
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