You Are the Greatest Writer of All Time: A Lesson in Necessary Overconfidence

katiecoyle:

Here’s this slightly deranged thing I wrote for Hot Metal Bridge about learning to be full of yourself:

If I have learned one thing from the two-thirds of a graduate degree in fiction writing that I’ve completed so far, it’s that the odds are against my living the exact life I want to live, which is that of a wildly popular writer of short stories who resides in a castle and is served a steady stream of sandwiches by her solid gold robot butler while she lounges beside her champagne pool, arranging the money she’s made off of her theme park into neat stacks. I don’t know what to blame, exactly—one gets the sense that the amount of readers in the world is dwindling, due to reality television or Twitter or something, but at the same time, I can’t help noticing how many writers are out there. There are simply too many of us, and only so many castles.

You guys should read this; I love it.