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Kate Elliott@kateelliottsff.bsky.social |
This kind of thing reminds me, adjacently, of that evergreen question "what book do you wish you had written" which to me is such a weird question because the whole point is that I want to write MY books and to read the books I can't have written by the writers who wrote them,
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John Scalzi
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Yes. Feel the same and for the same reasons.
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Shannon Weston
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exactly! Like the book I wish i had written is the one I'm writing, I read books because I want to be lost in worlds I didn't come up with.
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Duae
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It is a good thing I am not on panels because I would have interpreted that as "What idea did you have that just didn't work out in book form" and not "What other author's book do you envy?"
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Aaron C
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Have you always felt that way? I was writing pretty regularly but got bogged down by imposter syndrome, and the thought - why keep writing if I will never be able to write as well as my favorite authors?
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