The whole point of Scratch is to acknowledge where people are as writers at this moment in time, how we got here, and the costs to the culture (and our own lives!) as a result. That "or not" part of Scratch's tagline about "how writers are surviving" isn't a joke —we plan to be explicit.
Rahawa Haile
My long interview with @coletteshade.bsky.social is up at Scratch this week, in which we discuss writing vs. writing careers, making ends meet under capitalism, and long-term planning from within short-sighted industries. It is an extremely candid conversation about art and money and aging.
“In order to have a society — frankly, a democracy — we have to have these areas that are protected from the market.”
