1 Title: The Writer's Room
4 Tags: epistemology, discourse, meta
8 > You have to pay a price, girl!
9 > They like to give advice, girl!
10 > Don't think about it twice, girl!
11 > It's time to get to work!_
13 > —["Putting It Together" as performed by Barbara Streisand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPqNjNKQ0fM)
15 I keep thinking of these snarky dialogues, but those won't actually help convince everyone who wasn't convinced of the non-snarky version, and returning readers have already heard the joke
21 I want to flip a table and scream about being gaslighted, but that wouldn't help
23 The only thing to do is patiently explain the consequences