Opinion: “Writing is Hard”
Resident Writer Responds to Fraud Allegations
We reached out to Beat World's Resident Writer today, who shared strong opinions on why "writing is hard,” the concept of ineptitude, and why she hasn't completed the simple task we require of her, despite us being super cool about it. The only words our writer produced the past several days were: “I can’t.” When we indicated this was roughly 498 words short of quota, our writer did not reply. When asked to expand on her expressed ineptitude, she responded, “it’s not ineptitude.” When Beat World informed her this sounds a lot like ineptitude, our writer explained further, “Idk man, stop harassing me. Sometimes writing is hard.” After several repeated texts from us, she shared “Oh my GOD. I'm tired, I had a super full weekend. Please stop.” Beat World followed up with the suggestion that some magazines might publicly expose their writers’ ineptitude, or give her position to another writer to whom writing comes easily, and that she "should think about what that would be like, hypothetically.” Our writer wrote back “are you threatening me?” to which Beat World pasted a screen shot of the Merriam Webster definition of “hypothetically." Our writer offered additional brief replies, including "no, literally writing words is not hard for me” and “yes, I’m sure I'm a writer” and “no, I’m not lying to the general public.” When asked if she was a fraud, she replied “Omg. I can obviously write, it's just hard to start. The starting part is hard. I’m unable to start right now." When we informed our writer that text messages are writing, and therefore she was already breaking her supposed inability to start, she replied “pls fucking stop.” Our reporter reminded our writer of the Professional Code of Conduct, to which she said “that doesn’t exist, we don’t have one.” When we assured her we do, she replied “Y'know what, I just spent 45 minutes of my night arguing with you, so if that counts as writing, it counts toward my quota." While we were attempting to locate Beat World's Code of Conduct, our writer added "you wouldn't exist without me" before sending a vulgar emoji and turning her device on 'do not disturb' for the remainder of the evening.
-Beat World News Team
