The Privilege of This Stiff Arm

Writer’s Rejection Gets Shit Upon All the Time. It’s Actually Clarifying and Helpful.

Ian Belknap

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Fuckin’ metaphor and whatnot.

So if you are a bristly, skeptical, wary, despairing wretch with a penchant for lobbing doleful jokes out of the psychological pit you’ve dug yourself, there are maybe only like six jobs in all the wide world that you’d actually want. Jobs where you could catch your…

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Ian Belknap

Founder WRITE CLUB. Essays, satire: Rumpus, Chicago Trib, Chicago Reader, American Theatre Mag, etc. Partner & I sold pilot to Sony-Tristar writerianbelknap.com