Today is Rachael Harrie's First Campaigner Challenge (do pop over to the link to check out the list of posts!). I really wanted to join in but my mind has gone totally blank and I literally cannot - cannot - think of a single thing to write for it! Sigh.
In fact, I am so brain-dead today, all I can think of is a new installment in the saga of The Things People Say When Sangu Tells Them She's a Writer. You know, like this one.
So this happened at the airport a couple of weeks ago, when I came back to the UK after my trip to Bangalore.
OFFICIAL [looks at Sangu's passport]: So what do you do, miss?
SANGU: I'm a writer.
OFFICIAL [perks up no end]: Really? A writer! What kind of stuff do you write?
SANGU: Books. Novels, I mean. Fiction. Books. Fiction books. [VOICE INSIDE MY HEAD: smooth. Very smooth.]
OFFICIAL: Wow! Any, like, crime?
SANGU: Erm, no. I write teen fiction. Young adult.
OFFICIAL [totally crestfallen]: Damn. I'd have asked for your autograph if you wrote crime.
SANGU [laughs the whole way home]
In fact, I am so brain-dead today, all I can think of is a new installment in the saga of The Things People Say When Sangu Tells Them She's a Writer. You know, like this one.
So this happened at the airport a couple of weeks ago, when I came back to the UK after my trip to Bangalore.
OFFICIAL [looks at Sangu's passport]: So what do you do, miss?
SANGU: I'm a writer.
OFFICIAL [perks up no end]: Really? A writer! What kind of stuff do you write?
SANGU: Books. Novels, I mean. Fiction. Books. Fiction books. [VOICE INSIDE MY HEAD: smooth. Very smooth.]
OFFICIAL: Wow! Any, like, crime?
SANGU: Erm, no. I write teen fiction. Young adult.
OFFICIAL [totally crestfallen]: Damn. I'd have asked for your autograph if you wrote crime.
SANGU [laughs the whole way home]
