10) The novelist

“This is not the most common answer, but she started writing a novel,” says Doctordoomduck.

“We were friends for a couple months before she told me that she had a ‘story inside her that was desperate to escape’ or something like that. Because I am a self-confessed book nerd, she asked if I could help her. Since this has never happened before, I agreed without really knowing what to expect.

“It was immediately an awful experience. She would ignore me for days working on new chapters then email them to me at 2 AM, expecting me to give her feedback in the morning. She'd send me unrelated paragraphs without telling me the context because she wanted me to ‘experience them like a reader would’. She would never accept criticism of any kind and if I even hinted at not liking something, she'd go out of her way to make me feel bad for not understanding her vision.

“But the worst thing about it all was that she was a f**king horrible writer. I still remember the pages and pages and pages of purple prose, flat characters, obvious metaphors, boring storytelling, and punch-you-in-the-face foreshadowing. After completing roughly 50,000 words of this terrible book she decided to quit college so that she could focus on writing full-time and asked me to follow.

“I told her no f**king way.”

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