This is Not the Post I Wanted to Write
On plagiarism, online etiquette, being a good literary citizen, and thoughts on how to respond if this happens to you
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Dear Inklings,
I hadn’t intended to write on this topic at all. My tendency is to keep quiet and carry on. However, thanks to the courage and encouragement of people who believe others would benefit from an article like this, I’m pushing past my own discomfort in hopes my experience will help someone else.
Recently, it was pointed out to me that someone had taken huge chunks of my work on the Asian Writers Collective and duplicated them onto their own Substack.