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hey
u there?

hii
yeah whats up?

not much. you?

same

listen
are you mad about something?

no
why do you ask?

it’s just
that story you wrote

what about it?

you seem upset

in the story?

yea

you know that’s fiction, right?

yea right

I mean it
I’m not mad
it’s just a story

well if ur not mad then ur being ridiculous

wut

yea I’m sorry but I didn’t like it

well, I’m the one who’s sorry
I’m sorry you didn’t like it
what was it you didn’t like?

you know it’s not fiction

of course it is
if you write it down it’s fiction ;)

do you even remember the context of that quote?
who said it?
and why?

of course I do

what you’re doing is not creative
it’s cheating

oh and you know about cheating, don’t you?

what are you even talking about?

I’m talking about you coming here to tell me what I should and should not write
as if you’re a literature moral inspector
and as if you don’t use your life too
as if you don’t know how it all works

I don’t use it, it happens to me
that is our difference
I don’t call fiction a story that actually happened
and then publish it
that’s just cheating 
it’s really obnoxious

what do you think you know about what actually happened? 
and who gave you authority on what anyone should publish?

well I just didn’t like reading it

I didn’t like writing it all that much

then why would you?

because I can’t not do it
I do it all the time
I liked the images in that one, that’s all
(you should see the rawness in the unpublished stuff)
plus new year, new approach
no more shame

you give me the creeps sometimes

welcome to the club
please be cool, it’s no big deal
I only write it so I can, let’s say, ackowledge that one particular perspective
once I’m done with the story the wheight of it is gone
I don’t even completely agree with it
you should know it’s not always that a story can account for an author’s opinion

the best ones do

I know
I’m not that good yet