Because every writer knows how this feels.

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…dare you presume I have any interest in letting you win. You think you’re all that with your smug openness and your daunting empty space, well, I have news for you. I find the very fact that you exist insulting.

Yes, insulting. You are downright despicable, and pompous, not to mention infuriating and frustrating and all the things I’ve come to loathe about…

By Rachael Maltbie