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Tell me about your favorite literary genres? Or your favorite books/stories? I need to do some market research or something.

I've been in a rut with my writing for several months, which is a bummer because I just graduated. So I now probably NEED TO WORK, but I'm a writer who hates everything I try to write right now.

It's very lame.

Alternatively, I'll take suggestions for career paths. Keep in mind that my degree is widely panned as being functionally useless.

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Fiction only? Maybe you could get out of the rut with something else. Work on your memoirs or something.

My first book was a memoir. Or at least memoir-adjacent? Kinda?

It was compiled diary entries, more or less. I have tons more similar material, but I'd have trouble making it thematically cohesive, I think. I'm also pretty sure it's not interesting.

So I'm not against the concept! I just feel... Boring? Similarly uninspired?

No, I get it. Been there. Most writers hate all our stuff at one time or another, the lack of inspiration is normal, but that doesn't help you now.

Yeah. It's a bummer.

It's not a life-or-death problem. I have things I can do for a "living," I just... Want to write and feel good about it and love what I put out.

Probably a pretty universal problem.

Universal doesn't mean it's less important. It's not like it gets diluted.

What made you want to write to start with?

A somewhat isolated childhood that gave way to a love of reading, I guess, and the isolation stretching into adolescence... There's some superpower trauma involved, but that's pretty convoluted and involved.

It's always been easier to write things down than to speak them.

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And if something doesn't come out right, you can just go back a few words and try again. Of course, there's always the danger of getting trapped in the editing.

I mean that literally and metaphorically.

How literally are we talking?

You don't want to know how long I've agonized over some pieces before. Deadlines can be awful, but sometimes I think they're also the only things that save us.

Oh, good. I was worried that it was some... weird, imPort-y, strange happenings stuff. Would've been an interesting tale, I'm sure, but... Anyway.

Yeah. I probably could've worked over my last book forever. I still don't know how I want to leave it, you know?

Maybe I should impose some kind of consequence-laden deadline upon myself.

Oh, god, that is surprisingly plausible here, and now I'm a little terrified I've jinxed us somehow.

That's not a bad idea. You just have to make it something you can't shrug off easily. No smacking the snooze button allowed.

Right? Be on the lookout for spurred super-writers, I guess.

... Maybe I can tie it to a holiday or something, like having a manuscript wrapped before Christmas.

There you go. Maybe even promise someone a copy of it as a gift.

Terrifying, but it carries weight.

I might have a bit of a book club going soon. Maybe I'll leave it to them.

Yeah? I wouldn't mind joining, if you're up for new members.

I'll definitely check in and let you know. I don't know how solid it is, and apparently one of the hypothetical members is pretty shy. I don't want to accidentally overload anybody.

... I guess there could be two branches, though. I can read more than one book at a time.

Sure, no problem. And no rush. I've got a lot on my plate lately anyway.

The Eternal imPort Conundrum: Scheduling.

You're not wrong, but I'm also getting married, so there's a whole extra set of scheduling wrinkles.

Oh! Are you marrying the self-healing, potential BASE jumping dude?

Yeah, actually. That's him.

Congrats. I hope he didn't wind up hurting himself and/or any members of his friend group.

Not so I noticed. If he did, it'd be his own fault anyway.

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