"I Can Write", a Rant
When I graduated college with a Creative Writing degree, the first job I landed was working at a grocery store. There was a recession going on, and I hadn't been very good at accumulating useful experiences during my school days, so my resume was pretty much "I went to college! Yay?" As I recall, the uniform options were (a) a white buttondown shirt or (b) a dreary blue sweatshirt with the store logo on it. The dreary blue sweatshirt was more comfortable and most people wore it, including myself. One night, I wore the white shirt, because I'd been invited to a gathering of writerly types that I was going to immediately after work. One of my co-workers noticed, and asked me why I was wearing a white shirt. "I'm gonna go hang out with a bunch of writers," I told her. "You can write?" she asked. "Most literate people can ," I replied. And that's the thing of it. Most literate people can. People do it every day, even if it's just...