Will Writers Only Make It After Death?

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Death — the one scary and only thing we know is sure to happen to all of us. There have been a litany of people who have become famous post-humously and we will not know until we eventually reach that point. Yet, for those of us who are following this path, we still have a long way to go.

Emily Dickinson. Emily Plath. Charles Dickens. Mark Twain. These are just some of the names that come to my…