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be more original. not.

August 11, 2012 by L.S. Johnson

one of the better responses i’ve read to the it’s-not-worth-it-if-you’re-not-coming-up-with-something-original arguments that i have heard a LOT in the last 20 months or so.  (i refuse to say two years.  i have not yet been working on this for two years.  i’ll say two years when it really is two years and not a minute sooner.)

thank you monology for the link.

http://onlyalittlelion.tumblr.com/post/29097051054/tywinning-asked-you-2012-08-09-03-37-as-a

which is exactly what i start to say, but i forget names and dates and so it always comes out as a petulant “but, like, most of literature is reworking something familiar, all this originality talk is, like, recent, really modern, you know, the way ‘childhood’ is a recent thing . . . really not that long ago . . .” and then i wrinkle my nose and spend the rest of the day mumbling writers’ names to myself and thinking of zingier comebacks for Next Time.  but now i have a cheat sheet!  watch out, naysayers.

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