4 months! My god...hangs head. Was writing it pretty much your whole life for that time? Did you follow an outline? (I'll bet if I go looking through your blog I'll find answers to my questions...please hold lol)

Mine is also memoir...a crazy year in Dubai back in 2004/2005 when I was 21/22 working in media and trying to cover human rights/taboos (prostitution, 'slave labor', etc) - this is back before most of the US had even heard of Dubai - so, at the time it hadn't been done. It explores larger issues of identity/gender - often through the lens of my own experiences (ie a lesbian relationship with a Bahraini girl whose family forced her to leave Dubai when they discovered she...gasp, liked women as more than friends)...and if I had to reduce to 2 words, it's probably about 'identity construction' - and of course, my love affair with alcohol/other stuff and how that left me in some less than ideal situations. But I also try to make it NOT about me...

Have you started your next? I'm going to go read your excerpts :-)