Writing Is Hard. Plagiarism is Cheating.

jesscio
4 min readOct 6, 2021
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“Borrowing” from another writer is lazy — no matter who that writer is.

If you’re a writer, and you haven’t yet read the NYT piece about being a “bad art friend” — please — dash over there and have a read. It is a whole lot of bizarre on all sides. And I have so many thoughts about it, I couldn’t limit myself to a way too long FB post or a way too…

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