“Life During Peacetime” and “Boris the Shitting Buffalo”
Life During Peacetime by Matt Forney Let me tell you about good writing. Good writing is about a lot of things: honesty, first and foremost. It needs to be so brutally, scathingly honest that it induces symptoms of narcissism in the author. This is why authors drink: it’s the only thing that kills the shame of exposing your inner core. Next, it needs to be perceptive: not just of the self, but of those other characters who share in the story. You need to truly understand and empathize with humanity if you’re going to be a good writer. And finally...
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