Today I accidentally Googled myself. I was about to close the window when I noticed that I was not the first result for my own name. Above me was Daniel Piper Motor Services, a vehicle repair shop in Suffolk. I immediately telephoned the garage and asked to speak to Mr. Piper, who I then politely but firmly encouraged to consider changing his name.... See more
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spent those years writing for someone else: an editor I hadn’t met yet, a projection of literary authority I created in my mind. I was writing pieces that I hoped sounded like publishable stories, trying to guess what readers would want, and what editors thought was important. In the process, I’d forgotten what made me want to be a writer in the
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