uh oh

i shouldn't be a writer i should just write

let's be clear: some of the best writers ever weren't writers; they just wrote
chekhov
walker percy
jane austen, actually

always felt that the cut-and-thrust of...not for me. i'm bad at it and, super-frankly, i don't see the worth or use of most of it. friends in it; much of it good / fun, and a small % essential and valuable*

*what the hell is this? by my subjective measure, right? yes. but also there's a thing, here. or: i don't know. i don't know. i don't know!