This is a holiday for absolutely everyone who writes — both those who create new worlds and those who "gave birth to triplets from the dragon boss" (unfortunately).

In general, it was established in 1986 by decision of PEN International: the participants decided that the whole world needs a day when we honor freedom of creativity and the press, as well as the fight against excessive censorship in peacetime.

Be free in your creativity (and send me your works to read). As my reading experience shows, it is my friends who write something worthwhile, while everyone else writes some nonsense. This rule also works in reverse, actually — those who write something good become my friends, but I'll tell you about that another day.

And today — praise yourself, dust off your unfinished manuscripts, and see you next year with new works in the same place ❤️