Alternate Writes

Can Writing Change the World?

Writers have a difficult time telling whether a fan is in love with them or their work. Being egoists, most of the time they choose themselves. Try it. Tell a writer, any writer, you’re a fan of their work. See if they don’t ask for your number. It helps if you mention one of their more obscure books, so obscure no one but you and the author have ever read it. If he or she doesn’t, wait five days for the Facebook friend request. Of…