On A Mission

The fact that I'm listening to Gabriella Cilmi's On A Mission has nothing to do with the title of this post, I swear it doesn't.

You see, I LOVE to write (possibly more than I love my boyfriend, and he does know this, but he loves his PC more than me, so we're even), and am currently studying a Creative Writing coures at university. These two things have led me to notice several things:

1) That almost all successful writers (please note that I said SUCCESSFUL, not good) are either a) married or b) certifiably insane.

Exhibit A (married): Stephen King; Meg Cabot; Sophie Kinsella/Madeline Wickham; Marian Keyes; Dan Brown; F. Scott Fitzgerald

Exhibit B (crazy people): Virginia Woolf; Sylvia Plath; J.K.Rowling (the woman ditched a perfectly nice job as a teacher to go on the dole and write Harry Potter. If that's not insane, tell me, what is?)

Perhaps to call them "certifiably insane" might be going a tad far, but they're hardly normal. Not that I can comment, but I never claimed to be normal. Not lately, anyway...

Second thing that I've noticed:

"Chick lit" has a REALLY bad rep. Like, trailer trash rep. This annoys me. Sure, sometimes the characters can be whiny, annoying and boy crazy, but so can lots of people out there. I know FAR more guys that are bothered about being single than I do chicks, actually. They're all pretty whiny. But I digress.

Not all chick lit characters are like that. A lot of them set positive examples for us ladies - they're strong, independent, and if they get the guy in the end, that's great. And if they don't...well bugger 'em. Blokes are useless anyway.

Did you know there's also a sub-genre of chick lit called lad lit? I might have to check one out. Purely for research purposes, of course. I have no more desire to know how the male mind works than I do to eat a giant turd. (Actually, I think I'd rather know how their minds work than to eat that, but you get my point).

So anyway, all rambling aside, I'm going to make it my mission to give ladies' literature (see? Doesn't that sound so much nicer?) a better reputation. Along the way, you may also be faced with my somewhat bitchy, potentially successful and incredibly sadistic methods of thinking when I talk about something non-writing related.

Don't say I didn't warn you.