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Down the Rabbit Hole: Reflections of Self in a Writers&#; Residency
In early August , I prepared to enter the International Writers Residency at The University of Iowa. I imagined a room somewhere, with one enormous chair and hours of solitude to write. I had never thought of myself as a writer. In my tiny community of Indian migrants to South Africa, a famous catch-phrase would ring:
“Better – Doctor. Not Writer.”
But a marriage to the medical field and a very secretive flirtation with writing found me fumbling and stumbling my way into writing a successful debut novel (What About Meera, ). Medicine would forgive me and take me back, I told myself, once the heady lover had spit me out. I was afraid. I morphed my fear into an air of nebulous detachment. All I knew was the safe career of the medical profession, and I had written my debut novel with a sense of guilt, hiding it from my family. I felt like a fraud, entering the Program, not having any qualifications in Creative W
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