“If you ever feel bad about your own writing, just remember that one of the world’s most well-known works of classic literature is self-insert fanfiction where the author hangs out with his favorite poet and is guided on his journey of discovery by a Manic Pixie Dream Girl version of a woman he met twice.” —“Failure pile in a sadness bowl,” Mister-Smalls, Tumblr, February 2014
Contributed By Victoria Rea-Wilson (Bowdoin, ’14)
