What should I write?

May 27, 2010 on 2:40 pm | In Current Events, Following Orders, Funny things, Life In General | 7 Comments

I have no ideas. I’m depressed and bored and I still have no job. Oh, and I’m also no longer eligible for unemployment benefits, so I have no money and can’t afford to pay my bills.

So here’s my idea: tell me what to write about. I’m trying to prove myself as a decent writer to potential employers, so I want you, my readers, to tell me what to write about. What do you want to know about? The last book I read? The reproductive habits of anglerfish? My favorite sideshow freak? A short story about a hamster? Suggest a topic in the comments, and if I like it, or if enough people second the idea, that’ll be what I’ll write about. Fiction, non-fiction, whatever. Then at the end of that post, I’ll ask for more suggestions. This will continue on an approximately weekly basis until I get tired of it or until I get a job.

So let me know what you want to hear about. Nothing is too weird or obscure. I will probably not write anything that violates my personal privacy or morals. And my husband has veto power over topics that are borderline. Go for it. Tell me what you want to read. Pass this post around to your friends. Spread it around. The more ideas I get, the better.

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  1. more weird British food!

    Comment by hebba — 28 May 2010 #

  2. I agree. I LOVE your british food blog!

    Comment by jo — 28 May 2010 #

  3. So! There is a book that I have really been wanting to read but I don’t have time and I’m not going to have time. And then you offer to write something… anything… including book reviews, and a bell goes off in my head. “Alana could read this book and tell all of us what she thinks and then it would be like I read it because I’ll read her review!” And of course, if you think it is good enough, then I could read it later, knowing your recommendation.

    I’ve been increasingly bothered by the poor explanations of the book of Revelation, especially within the denomination we both grew up in. And ESPECIALLY after all the undeserved hoopla that the Left Behind series received (which I equate to the Twilight series on lack of writing skill and ridiculousness). And then one of our pastors gave a sermon on a passage in Revelation and cited this book and when I asked him afterward where he got all the amazing ideas that he shared that I had never before heard used in conjunction with the passage (such as, it was also written to the Christians at that time… not just as a mystery to be dissected by those of us 2000 years later who would know what a helicopter and a nuclear bomb were), he said they were all from this book’s commentary and from the actual Biblical passage.

    So I want to know if this book is as great and as “wow, the Left Behind series is as off base and un-Biblical as it seems!” as I have heard. If you choose to pick this as a project, we’d buy and ship you the book because there is no sense in you paying for a book that I’m requesting a review of! Tell me if you want to do it.

    Jaime

    Comment by Jaime — 29 May 2010 #

  4. yeah, the food reviews were cool – I wonder if you perceptions of those foods have changed in the 5 years. You could do a quick recap

    Comment by brett — 31 May 2010 #

  5. Jaime, so sorry your comment wasn’t showing up. Something went floopy with the comment approving. I approved it and assumed it was there, and then when I went back, it was marked as “awating approval”. Don’t know what went wrong there. Anyway, I would be interested in doing a book review since I have no money to buy any books right now, so I’ll read whatever I can get for free. :) I can’t guarantee a perfect indepth review, but I’ll do my best.

    Comment by girlalive — 7 June 2010 #

  6. write about how great life is there and maybe an employer will catch on about how commited you are. If they think you’re simply looking for a job to make money to get back to the states, they won’t be interested.

    why is it that you don’t move back home? does your husband want to stay there?

    Comment by heather — 7 July 2010 #

  7. @heather I literally can’t move back to the US right now because I don’t have the money. I can’t afford a plane ticket. I can’t afford to ship all my crap. I can’t afford immigration fees for my husband. I have about $7000 of debt back in the US, and I only have one credit card, which has a 30% interest rate, so I can’t use it. We have a house we could sell, but right now it’s in no shape for sale (like, so crappy it probably doesn’t meet minimum building standards) and we can’t afford to fix it. My husband makes just enough money to pay our bills and almost enough to buy food, as long as everything we eat is from a can. Right now, even if I abandoned all my stuff and left my husband in the UK, I don’t even have enough money to get to the US, never mind that I’d have no place to live there.

    Comment by girlalive — 7 July 2010 #

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