Ripped from the pages of Atlas: Not-so-successful author asks uber-successful author to "please stop."
The British crime novelist Lynn Shepherd has found herself at the centre of a storm after she called on JK Rowling to stop writing because she has "had [her] turn", suggesting that other writers need "room to breathe".
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reminds me of parents begging principals to remove Ds and Fs from report cards because it's not good for self esteem
The less-famous author has the flawed thinking of "there's not enough to go around". Intelligent left- and rightwingers should reject this thinking.
Maybe there should be another spectrum about whether there's enough to go around: cornucopian vs Malthusian. I'm a cornucopian.
I write because I have need to tell stories. That I can make money at it would be a wonderful bonus, but, as the saying goes... "writers write".
she's taking the walk of shame