Poking the bear
Is that a terrible title? It might be a terrible title, I'm not sure. Anyway that's the current/temporary title for the novel formerly known as Imposter Syndrome. Because that book has gone on a whole journey that I can't even get into really, from conversations with friends that uprooted some wild things from my past that I had not really been aware of until seeing them through someone else's eyes. This is why they invented therapy, you know. I should look into that. Just. WHEN. The novel was originally about (oh my God) a young composer who got tormented out of her conservatory by some assholes (nonfiction) but solved the can't-compose-anymore problem by studying the work of a specific musician (just elided a bunch of decades there) but then got continually hounded by imposters online, which was truly a feature of my last year. Except it's me, the comprehensive scholar of anything I'm interested in, so I was like: no, they'd never make th...