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Max Kotin

Berlin-based non-fiction writer | icanwrite.app creator
My 2026 goal as an aspiring literary fiction writer: 50 rejections My 2026 goal as an aspiring literary fiction writer: 50 rejections

Last year, I finally started writing fiction. It's been a dream of mine for decades. "If I can write decent non-fiction, why can't I write fiction?" I tried many times. Failed every time. It was awful, what I wrote. Painful to read. Embarrassing. At some point I decided that I wasn't talented enough for fiction. Fiction was simply not my thing. I should stick to what I do best. Interviews. Research. True stories... Non-fiction. And then when I had completely given up, all of a sudden...

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