No Wonder I�m A Good Writer

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From this NYT op-ed about the plagiarizing Harvard chick-lit novelist:

Ms. Viswanathan is a bookish girl who might have had more success at
fiction if she didn’t bear the burden of the overachiever.
Overachievers don’t generally become writers because the skill set is
so different. As I tell my writing students, if you want to be
a writer work on the finer points of gossip, eavesdropping and
voyeurism; basically the pastimes of the underachiever, ways to while
away the hours.