Go ahead...log on to Twitter or Facebook...I dare you. Everyone has a freaking blog and they are all on their way to writing, The Great American Novel....(BTW, What the Hell is .."The Great American Novel?") To most of them this means THEIR OWN life story.
Fortunately and mercifully, most of them become discouraged after the preface, and for lack of interest, audience and time they quickly give up the quest, leaving us with only a few crumbs of their life and a poorly designed book cover-in-the making to guess at what makes their life unique enough to warrant a few chapters, let alone a whole novel. (major run-on sentence there..NO...I'm not changing it)
I have written for two magazines and three newspapers, lived in several foreign countries and still think a book in fiction would be way more interesting than a full bio on the life of a 34-year old man from the Pacific Northwest.
I'm sure there are people out there who deserve to have a novel based on their life.I'm probably not one of these...chances are, if you're reading this, it might not be you either..(you should be busy inventing time-travel or curing AIDS so we can finish that book on your amazing life)
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