On the importance of writers

A rant, wherein I stretch an analogy about fence building to breaking point.

A break from the writing course this week. Kind of a sidebar, I guess, because there are always going to be subjects occupying my mind and this is as useful a place as any to get them out, on the off-chance that the thinking is helpful to someone else.

So I want to talk about the importance of writers. This is on a lot of our minds right now because of …