Writing About Writing About Writing

 I was going to talk about kids in fanfic, but this is something else I'd had on the back burner.

Anne Shirley, the beloved and iconic red-haired Canadian girl from the Anne of Green Gables books, is a writer.  She never becomes a career journalist or novelist or anything like that, but that's besides the point.  She's a writer.

( "But your folks ain't like real folks anywhere. They talk too much and use too high-flown language." )

 
Montgomery had even more to say about writing in the Emily of New Moon books, but I didn't much care for that series.