On Writing
(NOTE: Based on time elapsed since the posting of this entry, the BS-o-meter calculates this is 16.884% likely to be something that Ferrett now regrets.)
I’ve said before that my Clarion classmate Kat Howard is far smarter than I am. Allow me to let her prove this to you.
Go read her essay “On Being A Writer.” It’s about what it really takes to be a writer, at least in the sense that people traditionally mean it. And she fucking nails it. It’s what I would have written, had I the time. And talent.