I have a book that's moving very, very slowly.
Problem is, I'm a ruthless perfectionist and spend most of the time constantly reworking it and thinking it's utter shite.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 23:43, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I have three books in drawers
all waiting to be finished. I'm not a perfectionist though. What's your book on?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 23:44, Reply)

A lad living in a smallish industrial town who's about to become an adult and realises there's a lot more to the world than he's been told.
Then he breaks from the norms, finds happiness of sorts, gets condemned by society and falls through the cracks, ending up in a "care" facility that's a thinly-disguised prison.

It's a mixture of real life and nightmares, with plenty of backchat and black humour on the way. Got about 30 sides of A4 so far, it's about 1/6 to 1/4 done.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 23:50, Reply)

I've always thought that while it's important to write about what you know
If you write too personally then you run the risk of getting too close to the subject- a writer needs critical distance to gain authority over their work, rather than have the work itself dominate the process.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 23:53, Reply)