““I purposely used a pretty cocky, abrasive writing style in Sex and Crime, to stir up some drama. My confrontational style quickly became the talk of the scene. Some of the things I wrote were so inflammatory, people had to vent about it on online forums. So suddenly everyone in the scene was talking about Sex and Crime, just as I had hoped. I enjoyed playing the role of agitator, and people from competing hacking crews didn't even realize that the more they bitched about the things I wrote, the more credibility and notoriety they were adding to my scene mag. Thanks to all the positive as well as negative feedback I was getting, the things I wrote actually mattered. Suddenly I was the most important opinion maker in the scene.””
![“It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.” quote by William Browning Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/412/william-browning-spencer-10351_writers_it-s-not-that-writers-are-pompous-jerks_522776.jpg)
