Writers Can't Stop Writing About Writers

"Don't quit your day job" was good advice, actually

Recently, I watched Anatomy of a Fall after a friend recommended it. It was a good movie, although in the first scene it made me want to fall out a window because I saw my least-favorite trope repeated once again: the main character(s) are writers.

Of course, some people actually are writers and it’s OK if movies are about them sometimes. Take for exampl…