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If only every bad writer was as self-aware
http://www.lancemanion.com/why-im-not-successful-as-a-writer/
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Fails as humor, fails as education, fails as prose.

I guess he really is a bad writer. At least he's telling the truth.
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better story, really happened.
propria cures (mind your business in latin ) is a literary review by students from Amsterdam, 125 years old.
http://www.propriacures.nl/
Basically satire, all reviews are ad hominems, etc. One of the funnest things to read.

>1970ies some deranged guy publishes short stories
>PC review says he is a hack and should kill himself, since his existence detracts from Dutch writers and he's is competing with better writers in the ever shrinking book market (even then)
>Guy jumps out of a window, dies
>PC celebrates by having biannual competition for most deranged story, named after book
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