Note by Alicia Kennedy on Substack: "“Did I do what they did?” is the KEY here. So many people would like accolades and an audience without the labor involved. There are obvious privileges involved in both putting in that labor and reaping the rewards, but I’ve always found when I’m falling into an abyss of compari…"

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“Did I do what they did?” is the KEY here. So many people would like accolades and an audience without the labor involved. There are obvious privileges involved in both putting in that labor and reaping the rewards, but I’ve always found when I’m falling into an abyss of comparison that this is the question to ask myself. And then I have to ask whether I want to have done what they did.

Summer Brennan

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This is an important comment, and I want to reply with something that I think is equally important but hard: no writer, no book, no essay or post, is entitled to be read.

No one is entitled to success in their writing, and notable success in writing always takes a lot of work. N…

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