When you're a librarian you are constantly reading book blurbs and it makes you think "man getting published can't be that hard if this drivel is on our shelves. I could do this." and so of course you start having book ideas but writing a book is a lot of work but also your ideas are just really good.
Ideas I've had for books:
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A book called "Don't worry, therapy won't make you happy" about a really abrasive traumatized woman with BPD going through dialectical behavior therapy learning how to not try to control other people and to take responsibility for having driven away all of her college friends. It would be 50% flashbacks to college 50% present-day life with therapy sessions and like, learning to make new friends with people who she was judgmental of.
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A book called "Savant: A Novel" about a high-strung "high functioning" Autistic woman learning to accept that she has a disability and needs to stop masking all the time and accept help and accept her Autistic identity instead of distancing herself from "cringe" or "low functioning" people.
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Romance novels a la Talia Hibbert about straight trans women getting treated right. In particular today I had an idea for a comedy-romance about a straight trans woman whose all-lesbian friend group has made a bet to see who can find their friend a boyfriend that the group collectively approves of. I'd call that one "The Matchmaker Bet."
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Just like, an essay collection about community and transformative justice that draws from all the shit I've written on my blog and online over many years.
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A twine novel about a librarian doing archaeology at a library after a natural disaster, learning about the community and programming before the disaster through digging around in closets and stuff. Through this you also learn about the disaster.
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Magical girl as metaphor for pink collar burnout (I already wrote the first draft of this novella but the feedback on it has been negative and I have not been able to find the time to revise it.)
I really need to do NaNoWriMo or something haha. Oh but where is the time when I have to dilate.
