To earn a certain sort of street cred, people will say things like, “I once killed a man with my bare hands” or “I just got back from my third tour of duty” or “I changed a flat tire.” Writers are a different breed, and to establish writers cred, you need to say things like:
“I once copy-edited my manuscript and removed over 314 semi-colons. From the first two chapters.”
“Real writers don’t use quotation marks.”
“Do you know the difference between capitol and capital? Do ya, punk?”
“Sometimes I don’t indent paragraphs. That’s right, baby.”
“I footnote my footnotes. Because that’s who I am.”
“My editor asked me to make my book’s chronology coherent. I just laughed.”
“Sure, I could Google the information about actual events. I just don’t want to.”
“Yeah, maybe the phrase Writers Cred needs an apostrophe somewhere. Do I look like I care?”
