To circumcise or not to circumcise?

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If you choose to be a writer, you're practically hanging a kick-me sign on your back.
I commend all who dare to try. It's a very courageous thing to do.

I know that I am not the world's greatest writer, and I am not striving for that title.

I do agree with you, however.

Being an artist, in general, is tough. Everyone considers themselves critics whether they know about that which they are speaking or not.

Though to be honest, I think classic literature is crap and boring, the kind of stuff to put me to sleep faster than an alcoholic beverage.

The problem, I believe, is that everyone has an opinion.

In school, what annoyed me the most was that the teachers wanted me to have an opinion on what I had just read.

I pleased them and informed them of what they wanted to hear.

However, I have no right whatsoever to properly interpret what the writer meant to convey. I was not the one who wrote it.

I read for entertainment, to momentarily escape reality, not to misinterpret the writer.

If writing well enough means that others might want a class full of silly teenagers to interpret my writing, then I don't want that poppycock.

I never want any of my writing to be destroyed by Hollywood, either.

I just want to write. A true writer just writes.