Benjamin cheever biography

I’ve got a terrible confession to make.

I confuse the word write with the word right. That’s how seriously I take this business.

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Way too seriously, if you ask me.

Therefore many righter’s websites leave me seasick. How you gonna get it write, if you start right off by reinforcing falsehoods? Which is what most righter’s websites do.

 Lie #1.

It’s all about winning, about success, about the money.

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Doesn’t work that way. The best writing comes from those cold and unlit chambers deep inside. Righting is as much about discovery as it is about cash. There are gems down there, horrors, but there’s also muck.

Night soil is what they called it, when human waste was used as fertilizer.

Benjamin cheever biography

So shit had a value. This doesn’t mean that when people squatted, they were thinking, “I’m gonna get the big bucks now!”

 Lie #2. It’s about the writer’s ego, the writer himself, or herself. It’s about some exalted personage, a celeb.

It would be better to kiss Jane Austen than to read