LOL. I can’t decide whether to write it as my biography or as fiction. My whole life is about six novels. Should I break it up into a series of fictionalized biographical novels, or one epic novel? Yeah, like I have time to write a book.
I don’t know - I have never managed to sell a story, though I have told a few.
But I do know, you need to both base it on what you know, and divorce yourself from it.
And, what else do you do with your time - hang out on FR?
You know what makes a PhD? An original contribution to human knowlege. A book. Write one.
“Sarah looked at the dirt between her toes, dreading school today. It would not go well.”
(egads, shoot me - that was awful)