I just got put on sick leave for a week for my depression. I have decided that in these seven days I am writing and completing a novel. It'll essentially be a biography of my 22 years, since no one can help me out with this depression, and no pills fix it, and no counsellors or psychiatrists ever want to litsen or help, this is sort of a therapy for me.

The premise is that the reader becomes the psychiatrist that never listened. And the rules are that I tell the whole truth throughout and it finishes when my sick leave finishes, at that point, it's over.

What kind of book does that sound like to you?

I realise it's pretentious and it's a real gamble to try and bang some 22 years out in 7 days, making it interesting and coherrent, but I might manage.

Has anyone else ever experimented like this?

Amii