Another one of those days where I'm grateful I came up in the metal band scene, where going over your time earned you a bad rep, pissed everyone off, and meant you probably wouldn't get booked again. Amazingly applicable to this as well. Metalheads have manners, unlike the people doing this I guess.
I could not tell you how often I have done readings with male writers who go way over the allotted time limit, biting into other people's reading time or making the event last way longer than it was supposed to.

But the worst ones are the ones who go: "I'll just read until someone stops me."

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