Better to Be a Mouse With a Backbone, Than a Lion With No Spine: On Writing Voice
You know when you sit down to write and your brain sort of feels kind of…constipated? (A delightful image, if I do say so myself.) Then you finally manage to put a sentence on the screen, but then you backspace over the “fuck”—because if you say “fuck,” no one will take you seriously—but then you retype the same word, wondering if you were to use such a word, whether it would come across as self-assured and bold, or lowball and
Jan 7, 2016