#WritersCoffeeClub Day 24. What's something you'd like to write, but know you never will?
I'm 60 with a couple of chronic health conditions that will kill me if treatment is disrupted. I write novels for a living. All I can focus on, right now, is finishing this year's workload (two books). There's a one-third-written novella that … maybe. Ideally I've got time for 10-30 more books, but who knows?
So I don't waste time thinking about what I can't write: I focus on what I *can* write instead.
solid plan
It begins as a series of tech-bro travelogues. I’m an old sci-fi author, travel in first class to tour the skunkworks of my billionaire fanboys. They walk me through their server farms, convinced my novels are non-fiction blueprints. I smile, sit in their healing pods, upload coffins, point out the glaring sanity-check failures in their plans for DIY-apotheosis via wetware upload, and cash the cheque. They are, to an old man, dangerously out of their minds techno-fascists. The last essay ends mid-sentence. I die.
Five years after my obituaries get filed, a new manuscript is found in my computer. The first chapter’s title explains everything: "My First Day in Afterlife®." The second: "Mark Zuckerberg's username is Hades"
Good luck, here's hoping you can enjoy hanging out in this world and writing weird books for a good while yet! <3
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