A guest post by Debra Eve for Write It Sideways
Today’s post is written by Debra Eve, a finalist in The First Ever Write It Sideways Blogging Contest. Thanks, Debra!
Remember the uproar last summer when The New Yorker published their 20 Under 40 list of young fiction writers?
Gawker retorted with How To Complain About The New Yorker’s 20 Favorite Writers Under 40. They advised:
DON’T claim that you could come up with a better group of writers.
DO act skeptical about the concept of “lists.
Sample: “So these are, what, the best writers under 40? Huh.”
But plenty of writers publish later in life, as The Huffington Post‘s more thoughtful 41 Over 40 attests. Thank goodness, since I embarked on my writing career at age 50!
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