From denial to acceptance in long-form

You've heard of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and her theory of the five stages of grief? A TV reporter came up with something similar for long-form journalism and posted it on Facebook, where it was picked up by John L. Robinson and posted to his blog: "Depression – 'This is the worse thing anyone has ever written in the vast history of humanity. My keyboard should be smashed, my desk lit on fire and I should be sent to wander the wastelands doomed to never write again.'"