I pretty much object to anyone telling a group of people to stop whining.
It's rude.
If he's not interested in hearing what writers who are working through their difficulties and articulating them have to say about the process, he has the excellent option of not reading it. He's got no business dismissing the complex thinking of a whole class of people, few of whom he can possibly know personally, especially not in public, anyhow. If he wants to say something disparaging about writers who are able to put words to (writers...putting words to things...wacky) the various challenges and resistances they encounter in the writing process at his dinner table, that's skin off nobody's nose. But to publicize a statement of contempt and disinterest? That belies the kind of quinessentially midwestern understated courtesy he's usually a poster child for.
In other words, I think he should stop whining about it.
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It's rude.
If he's not interested in hearing what writers who are working through their difficulties and articulating them have to say about the process, he has the excellent option of not reading it. He's got no business dismissing the complex thinking of a whole class of people, few of whom he can possibly know personally, especially not in public, anyhow. If he wants to say something disparaging about writers who are able to put words to (writers...putting words to things...wacky) the various challenges and resistances they encounter in the writing process at his dinner table, that's skin off nobody's nose. But to publicize a statement of contempt and disinterest? That belies the kind of quinessentially midwestern understated courtesy he's usually a poster child for.
In other words, I think he should stop whining about it.