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No Chick Lit Material
May 5, 2008The funny thing about making Board Resolutions and Secretary Certificates all afternoon is that you see your life pass before your eyes. Epiphanies are never pleasant, unless it’s one where you win 95 million after buying lotto tickets twice.
So, about that epiphany:
I’m 25, unemployed, and waiting for life to surprise me.
This sentence would have made the perfect chick lit material, only my story (which will be maddeningly biographical from start to finish) lacks the one ingredient all chick lit novels have. I’m not insanely poor, not insanely geeky, and do not run around in neighborhoods where there’s at least a 25 percent chance I’ll get mowed down by a filthy rich person’s limo. Actually, that’s three elements; but I’m adding ‘I’m not insanely beautiful’ so that makes it four.
I’m telling you, writers lie all the time in those interviews. It’s not pain or joy or experience or imagination you need to write a book. It’s stamina; but they’re not telling you this because they do not relish the concept of competition. No one does, unless they’re dead certain they’ll win and the competition is only there to make them look even more wonderful than they already are.
Clearly, the only thing in my epiphany that has any hope of coming to fruition is the unemployed part, which I most certainly would be if I keep up this whole business of daydreaming while drafting serious - very, very serious - documents.
Previous Comments
are you resigning na? tabi nya ta! hope to see you within this week!
Posted by T at May 7, 2008, 2:08 amhello,
got ur link from mai.can i link you up?
when i read your post, i was thinking your like at your late 20’s but OMG im older than you 
i soo love your posts and how you verbalize your emotions. seems so real!im a newbie in blogging and also trying to put my emotions to writing. i dont even know if im doing it right but i care less bec. it has been my refuge.
hope u get to visit my site too and im sure ill be visiting ur site more often
cheers!
Posted by vonskie at May 8, 2008, 12:27 pmhey chin… well, i do hope this is the chin i knew months back. well, was just wondering through the internet, so i fortunately remembered you have your own blog. then i found u. well, are you the chin of the Kong family? if not, my apologies… please do enlighten me on this matter. thanks!
Nice posts! love them all.
Posted by jorny at June 13, 2008, 9:51 am
Stamina is one thing but passion is another. And I think it is passion, love of the craft, that spurs writers.
Chic lit reflects whatever it’s target market’s psychographic. It’s their escape.
That is interesting food for thought isn’t it?
Posted by Ozy at May 5, 2008, 3:23 pm