Peeking in to share another piece hit outta the park by Kathryn Vercillo. She's speaking about writing but also what she calls the "cultural obsession" with "respectable suffering" of writing and other work.

Peeking in to share another piece hit outta the park by Kathryn Vercillo. She's speaking about writing but also what she calls the "cultural obsession" with "respectable suffering" of writing and other work. https://createmefree.substack.com/p/i-love-writing-i-do-but-is-loving

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Oy. Well, that one hit me like a ton of bricks. What a courageous and insightful writer. 

So many quotable quotes in there that I hardly even know where to start. 

Reading this renews my commitment to doing whatever I can to help build better ways to value and reward writers like her. (And us, too!)

Writer, senior editor, music nerd, GenX eldergoth, monastery-bootstrapper. https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson https://tinyurl.com/Black-Stone-Wordsmith

I'm glad you liked it. I find it interesting that it seems like there's a collective consensus on this topic across platforms. Although, that may just be from the tint of the glasses I'm looking through at writers and other creatives I'm following online.