Amid the relentless tap of 280-character Twitter thoughts and meandering motivational captions from Instagram steroid users,1 the pursuit of originality in writing has found itself buried under a deluge of tweets and posts. It's as if the collective consciousness of the internet has been distilled into bite-sized aphorisms, leaving little room for the expansive thought once celebrated in literature and journalism.2 The advice "If you want to develop a good case of writer’s block, just read 100 Twitter posts" is a grim reflection of the creative wasteland that social media has fostered.

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