A person on Twitter, paraphrased: "I wish I was able to write as well X but despite going to school and doing everything right, I can't." Write a million words. "But they'll be not particularly great words." If anyone remembered X's first million that's true of theirs, too.
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One of the best things that the Internet did for society is that it created spaces which removed artificial constraints on how quickly you could write a million words and gave social permission for writing at any pace.
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A not so wonderful thing about school, and one reason why it produces rounds-to-zero good writers, is that it teaches you that work orders come in, words go out, and no words go out except in context of a work order.
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