Perfect Writing Isn’t Perfect
Embrace your flaws and the uniqueness of you
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4 min readMar 7, 2021
In his book Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner crafted a sentence that is 1,288-words long. When he was alive, he considered himself among the greatest living writers of his time, placing himself above Hemingway. Hemingway responded by, ironically, calling Faulkner an alcoholic.