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    SOUR GRAPES

    Jun 03, 2021 3 minutes

    A few months back there was a thread on Twitter started by a famous author asking writers to comment on the weird things they hear and/or are asked. Some of the responses were sad, some were funny, and a few writers revealed questions they’d been asked that were downright rude, bordering on offensive.

    Some of the things posted I have experienced myself over the decades I’ve been writing, so I decided to run a quick

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