It s a form of torture that only the most imaginative sadist can devise. Once you ve got it, you re ready to sell your soul to the devil to get rid of it. They ve invented laxatives for constipation. But literary constipation doesn t seem to figure in the priority list of any pharmaceutical. Society needs its doctors and teachers and lawyers and plumbers.
Writers are expendable.
Nothing happens if you haven t read a writer s work. You don t die or get into trouble with the law. Anyway, you can always read the reviews. No wonder society always ignores the needs of writers. One very real danger a writer faces every day is that the line between reality and fiction is often very blurred.