The Six Types of Writers

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Then you have Kafka, the guru of the amatuer, unsolicited manuscript. The instruction manual for the alienation of the individual in modern society that even the most extraverted babe-magnet at Harvard business and law school can use to publish an award-winning psychodrama on the side. Now that the alienated individual is a century of boredom old, and could as easily be mastered in prose by Gene Simmons of Kiss, and since every person you pass on the sidewalk has a phone/computer/camera/recording studio/stereo/library/movie theater/thermostat/garage opener/flashlight/clock/typewriter/mailbox/guitar tuner/credit card/satellite radio attached to the side of their head, it feels like living in a story by Philip Dick. But if you go into writing pulp science fiction you'll be accused of writing dull realism. Or worse: cheap comedy. But you might can get somewhere if you take Gregor Samsa and have him wake up in the morning to find that he's lost his briefcase somewhere, and wretched of wretched, his cellphone and laptop were in there.