tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3337042377966398742.post7545271311599660993..comments2024-02-22T07:47:22.661-05:00Comments on The Bathroom Monologues: "A Moment for the Duck-Billed Platypus" on Not From Here, Are You?John Wiswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07416044628686736927noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3337042377966398742.post-14305304801958978382009-06-08T14:36:15.340-04:002009-06-08T14:36:15.340-04:00But think about it this way: most schools have wri...But think about it this way: most schools have writing programs, and all you need to be to become a writer is to write. So from first grade (or Grade One) on, all literate children are writers, and thus all literate children are outcasts. With that kind of population, it's no wonder us writers who write a lot would find readers. Billions of outcasts, discovering they aren't alone through somebody else's words.<br /><br />I've got to admit that this assignment made me chuckle cynically about how magazines like the New Yorker are notoriously controlled by cliques. They fit quite nicely together, these entrenched incasts, though perhaps their sales dwindle.John Wiswellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07416044628686736927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3337042377966398742.post-1799275377132030572009-06-08T14:27:59.904-04:002009-06-08T14:27:59.904-04:00all writers are outcasts..we're not from here....all writers are outcasts..we're not from here..always scribbling..ink stains on our hands...keyboard blindness..yet people read our stuff..go figure..Michael Solenderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120045114297450520noreply@blogger.com