All I can do is write something that I can be proud of, I think.
I still have more research to do, but I can say that the end of this massive project is in sight.
I gave up one of my part time jobs in order to finish this book.
Is that dedication or am I a fool? I have no idea, but in my heart I feel that this is slow politics and there might be some effect from it.
I feel so powerless, just like so many other people; so much of this has to do with my gender, and like a lot of women I can't speak out, or I will be silenced. The sound so dramatic, doesn't it? But it's true.
The concept of equality is the biggest joke I've heard in my lifetime.
Not only that but as I writer I've been completely stereotyped as only writing about punk.
This is enormously irritating!
Sorry for short 'barking' sentences. I've been writing long ones.
'Stereotyped'?
ReplyDeletewho said that? Some head up their own arse academic? There is nothing wrong whatsoever with being an expert on a particular subject - it's a Very Good Thing. If you need medical attention do you want a specialist or a generalist?
I would suspect (although I don't know the circumstances, but I have suffered similar) that whoever said that is a bit jealous that you have knowledge that they don't.
The people that matter want you to write about punk, because you know what you're talking about. Write a book on car mechanics and I might not read it, but punk, yeah, I'll buy it. I actually sometimes wonder why you're not on the telly more - some of the punk documentaries over the last few years seem to rely on the same faces that get wheeled out, faces that I don't remember being involved much at the time.
And you've made a film. So F**k 'em.
There's a line in a John Otway song - 'it is my shoes that walk across the stage to the applause'. Remember that
On. Your. Side.
wilky