Writer Can’t Wait to Share All Their Work Which Will Never Be Produced Over Christmas Dinner

Ajax, ON.

There’s one in every family...With the holiday season fast approaching, freinds and relatives gather to celebrate the yuletide season. Amidst the cocktail fueled revelry and merriment, come in inevitable inquiries as to everyone's doings and goings on. For many Christmas is a time to reflect on all the achievements and excitement the past year has offered. For others, it's akin to an interrogation, with more festive lighting.

This was the case for Danielle Kirk. A novelist, she's spent countelss hours honing her craft, often in the reclusive surroundings of her small apartment. She ventured home to visit as many others, and when surrounded by family, the conversations winds from children, to the work place and what opportunities it affords, to the exciting locals they've visited. Unable to check these boxes, Danielle must rely on her creative wits to not seem entirely uninteresting. While there may not be a litany of 'achievemnts' whatver that arbatray insight may entail, to discuss, she's only to happy to convey her work, though the glaze in their eyes is matched only by that of the frost covered windshields.

In a polite, generally well meaning, gesture, they'll inquire about her latest project via laboured attempts to make it seem less perfunctory, though ultimately not lessening the effect of being placated as a younger memeber of the family who just hung their latest art piece on the fridge. She'll note, during the fleeting moments of attentinon afforded, that writing is an oft lonley venture, and the nature of such work be so tedious, as is relaying how much work one must put in to achieve thses goals, and it's difficult to show any tangable result until such time as its ready. Cretivity and market forces being what they are, this could take anywhere from weeks, to the sun's eventual collapse.

They'll chime in with encouragement, or sage advice like posting more on social media, or utilizing AI to imporve her odds, as it has so much of the world...As these chats teeter off, generaly upon an awkward silence and the realization it shall only yield so much fruit, the conversation will invariably move on to something only slightly more disheartening, personal relationships.