Thank you for this. As a poet and essayist who isn’t writing // can’t write (thanks long-standing depression and general life shittiness) I find your words immensely comforting. // Live Mas.
I love your refreshing, no bullshit stance on writing and the "literary" world. Thank you for everything you do. I will keep putting out trash for fuel...
“The free floating horror of longing to be perceived”. I love that we now have a name for this. Also, this post vibes with me a lot. This year, life took over in a major way and I barely wrote anything, and haven’t got a single work of fiction accepted anywhere. I felt like all my progress of the previous year had been erased by this shitty one (writing-wise). But I’m learning to approach things in a more nuanced way. Thank you for posting!
One of the best things about being a digital writer is that the gatekeepers are rendered useless. We don't need to go through any specific gate any more; we can walk around them. They not it, and that's why their hackles are raised.
Don't have a book deal? That's okay. Start a Substack instead. Didn't graduate from Bennington? It doesn't matter as long as you can bend words to your will. Don't have friends in moneyed places? Use the social media flywheel to build a network- at least this one won't leave you feeling dirty inside.
As for you & TBQ specifically; I hope on some level you realize the joy/hope/inspiration you bring to all of us. Sometimes it's LOL funny. Other times it's nice to know I'm not the only one rolling that rock up the hill. It's like modern day Enchrito; gluttonous and nourishing all at once.
I know you'd prefer cash. Wouldn't we all.
Nevertheless.
Here's to another year of throwing rocks at the self-deigned arbiters of taste; many of whom couldn't write a Wikipedia article if their life depended on it.
your peerless narrative catharsis IS transcendent
Thank you for this. As a poet and essayist who isn’t writing // can’t write (thanks long-standing depression and general life shittiness) I find your words immensely comforting. // Live Mas.
I love your refreshing, no bullshit stance on writing and the "literary" world. Thank you for everything you do. I will keep putting out trash for fuel...
VIVA MÁS BASURA
Legit - you’re the shit
Live mas. And carry on. Thanks for your words.
You're an inspiration, and i mean that genuinely, to shitty/struggling/listless writers like myself.
My first story will be published 2023.
Is it the pain or the publishing that makes me literary?
I don't think I'll ever know. Live más.
Congrats! Tag me when it comes out!
“The free floating horror of longing to be perceived”. I love that we now have a name for this. Also, this post vibes with me a lot. This year, life took over in a major way and I barely wrote anything, and haven’t got a single work of fiction accepted anywhere. I felt like all my progress of the previous year had been erased by this shitty one (writing-wise). But I’m learning to approach things in a more nuanced way. Thank you for posting!
One of the best things about being a digital writer is that the gatekeepers are rendered useless. We don't need to go through any specific gate any more; we can walk around them. They not it, and that's why their hackles are raised.
Don't have a book deal? That's okay. Start a Substack instead. Didn't graduate from Bennington? It doesn't matter as long as you can bend words to your will. Don't have friends in moneyed places? Use the social media flywheel to build a network- at least this one won't leave you feeling dirty inside.
As for you & TBQ specifically; I hope on some level you realize the joy/hope/inspiration you bring to all of us. Sometimes it's LOL funny. Other times it's nice to know I'm not the only one rolling that rock up the hill. It's like modern day Enchrito; gluttonous and nourishing all at once.
I know you'd prefer cash. Wouldn't we all.
Nevertheless.
Here's to another year of throwing rocks at the self-deigned arbiters of taste; many of whom couldn't write a Wikipedia article if their life depended on it.
(raises a Baja Blast in your direction)
#LiveMas
thank you so much for the kind words!