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A Taunting of Blank Pages and Other Collective Nouns for Your Writing Life

  • An optimism of fancy notebooks
  • A moonbeam of poets
  • A taunting of blank pages
  • An upchuck of rough drafts
  • A snark of comedy writers
  • An IOU of beta readers
  • A second mortgage of submission fees
  • An envy of bylines
  • An insufficiency of affirmations (See also: an exhaustion of friends)
  • A navel-gaze of memoirists
  • A nitpicking of copy-edits
  • A personal attack of rejections (See also: a wallowing of tacos)
  • A whiteness of canonical texts
  • An angst of novelists
  • A fiction of author bios
  • An overstimulation of literary festivals (See also: a statement of questions, a hangover of receptions, a conspicuousness of name drops, an imposter syndrome of networking events)
  • A heightening of comedy writers
  • A pandering of markets
  • A prestige of residencies
  • A vampire of what’s-at-stakes
  • A purgatory of freelance jobs
  • A $1.17 of Medium earnings
  • An enigma of 1099s
  • A GENIUS of editors (See also: an obviousness of flattery)
  • A procrastination of revisions
  • A resurrection of darlings
  • A rule-of-three of comedy writers

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