An Embarrasing Story About My First Draft

Some may have seen my short essay Fit In or Fit Out, some have not; the thing is, it wasn’t my first piece of writing. Long before, I started with a fiction project, back in 2009. The original title was ‘Opal’, which later got changed to ‘Foul Fairness’, since I felt there were a lot of books out there called ‘Opal’.

I’ve tried to hide it from the world. I even avoid listening to the music I used to play when writing that book now because I can’t bear it. I thought it was for another reason, b...