March 11 - Ghostwriter
Choose your writer.
If you could have any author - living or dead - write your biography, who would you choose?
It’s hard to choose but I always go with my gut on these prompts and the first name that jumped out was Isabel Allende.
Coming in second would be Jack Kerouac. Isabel comes to mind because her book The House of the Spirits is one of my favorite novels ever and she seems to really be able to grasp and put to words the internal landscape of a woman with all our complexities.
She also understands the dynamics of those most important female relationships—sisters and mothers and grandmothers. The legacies we pass down to one another for better or for worse. And I want an element of magical realism in my biography. My life has been blessed with magic, moments so surreal they don’t feel possible, and I’d love her twist on my life.
There are few authors who are as prolific as Neil Gaiman. His books take me to far off worlds that I long to visit. He would give my life a sense of magic and hope.
He would make those in my life vibrant and exaggerate their quirks; without being insulting. Life is taken way too seriously for my liking; so, I want an author who will have a balance of serious, humorous, and magical. Life is magic. The idea that we are here for this short period of time is magical.
I’d want someone to write my story that understood that on a granular level. If anyone could make my life seem interesting - it’d be Neil Gaiman.
When he puts pen to paper, everyone is talking about what he has written.
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