September, my dear friends, is officially "Be Kind to Writers and Editors Month". This is, of course, as important a celebration as has ever been sprung from the feverish imagination of mankind!
Okay, so perhaps it's not quite that momentous...but would it kill you to give some love to the underpaid, hardworking scribes hunched over keyboards and legal pads pouring out their hearts and souls and waiting...sometimes in vain, sometimes to glorious effect...for inspiration and imagination to turn into tangible magic? No, I think it would not.
(I guess that editors need some love too...though, being the salaried, dream-crushing, nitpicking, rejection letter spewing spawn of the devil that they often are...at least in the admittedly biased eyes of struggling writers...we are not going to worry overmuch about them.)
So kiss a writer...read a poem...buy a book by an author you never heard of (Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Bill Clinton, Scott Turow, and their "superstar author" ilk have more than enough money in their pockets and bestseller sales to their credit, spread the wealth a little)...get out there and join the celebration. You'll be proud (to one extent or another) that you did.
Excelsior, true believers!
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