the feminist librarian reads

It depends where you’re writing, what you’re doing, of course. But if you want to make a living as a writer these days, you must produce at volume. You have to write at a pace which is against all self-editing, careful sentences, complex thought, everything short of an immediate reaction. And you have to do it all the while knowing that even if your work is instantly forgotten — and it usually is — someone can and will dig it up later to throw it in your face.