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Bloody hell. The fellow was either an incoherent lunatic or a humanities student. 😂😂

That is why I began to write . . . Because time has fallen apart. Because I found a ream of paper on the shelf. Because I’m trying to remember. Because the paper remembers. And there may be healing in sentences.

What the f-f-f-f had happened. Where were his swears?

:))))

I was just about to update my reading status praising the amazing writing and then the Fuckfuckfucks started piling up 😂😂

“That something was off, and would only get worse.”

Bring it! I am (not) ready!

I hate it here.

I had to laugh at the spreadsheet comment... Bless you!

The chapter on Simone de Beauvoir was so distasteful and, given what the author chooses to fixate on compared to the rest, rather telling.

Writers need to come up with better ways to dump their load of exposition. Emails?? I’m having Rooney flashbacks…

Reading the longlist back-to-back I cannot help but find the novels repetitive and similar, in structure, in lack of character depth. This and Held read like excercises

I am losing my patience.

“Literature—” She stabbed at the air with her cigarette, making smoke stream from her nostrils like a dragon. “Now, that’s a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God.”

Hell, yeah!

I am enjoying Denise’s chapters more than her brother’s.

“Life is a tough room.”

🙄🙄🙄

sad fact but most facts were

WHAT?

“Failure is a form of vacation”

I'm sorry what??? These pseudo-profound oneliners are getting on my nerves.

Is she paraphrasing “Killing Me Softly”???

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I recognized in this situation something narrative-rich, larger than me, appropriate for creative writing. But once I started trying to turn it into “short fiction,” I felt rude, even traitorous.

UGHHHH