write a book and have it published
"what do you want to write a book about?" said my work colleague

....
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...i don’t know.

Science Fiction/Fanasy is the ever-obvious choice, but although I still enjoy dipping my toes into the water over there, it strikes me all too often these days as decidedly juvenile, pretentious, or worse, unoriginal and dull.
Yick.

I doubt my abilities to write a poignant/fucked-up/excellent novel a la Palahniuk’s Fight Club, Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity or Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a geisha (notice how they’re all guys? Odd…), but that would certainly be my next choice.

Last on the list is some dry discursive manual on “how to do shit”.



Comments:

The Bloomsbury writer , Virginia Woolf, once said that a woman can become a fiction writer only if she has an independent income and a room of her own(away from the cares of her domestic duties).

Income , i am not sure.

But yes ,you have to have a room of your `own’.

I do have a job (so money is ensured) and a working room in my house but very little creative and mental space (which gets sapped out keeping the house, entertaining friends, looking after the family and accounts).

I have actually read this essay

though I found “Three Guineas” more interesting. But I am inclined to agree… it’s hard to separate out the detritus of life from work.


 

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