Anonymous asked:
do u have to be in new york to make a living as a writer? i think i know what the answer is but.
THE ANGRY BORICUA Answer:
Absolutely not. Don’t come New York. There are already too many writers here, which is why there are so many mediocre novels and stories and TV shows and plays and songs about white people feeling listless in Brooklyn. Some of the best writers I know are producing great stuff far, far away from the confines of New York. Even all the websites that are based in New York now have contributors and full-time writers stationed around the world. (I worked at Gawker for two years mostly from my apartment in Los Angeles. I wrote one of the things I’m most proud of for that website while on a ferry to Catalina Island.)
If you really want to live in New York, then live in New York. But if you don’t want to live in New York – and it sounds like you probably don’t – then go live your life wherever you damn well please. New York will always be here if you want to go to boring media parties with people barely listening to one another while they check Twitter and look around to see if someone more important is near.





