Career selection is the toughest choice. If you choose to be a writer, then you have selected a tumultuous ocean over a gentle river.

At the beginning before becoming a full time writer you have to have a job so as to foot the bills.

It is indeed a worst phrase of a life when you are to start your day with a run to the office, return home squeezed and there you have to get into the shoes of your characters, and then sleep soon so that you can run tomorrow again.

It is really frustrating and you have to work. You have to bust your butts.

Truth is that all you really want is to go on a holiday near a beach or a mountain and stay there until your final manuscript is in your hands.

It sounds amazing. Life seems worth dreaming.

But reality is stranger than the fiction.

The real problem is to work at the office, get on with the politic and then think about your characters and scribe it.

However, your work place is full of wanted and unwanted characters for your imaginative world. All you need is to see them skepticaly.

Their behavior and the way they create a professional work place can give you a good impression about their life & work ethos.  They have villains’ smile, back stabbing prospect and arrogant behavior to suffocate others’ life as soon as possible.

Office is a nice place for politic. (Forbes link)

There is always something happening there, like gossip – extra marital, promotion and whose life is going to be hell.

Life is never simple. One has to be alert while working.

My idea may sound logical – that you are surrounded by writable characters while working and it is fun to write – but practically it is next to impossible to project them, only because you need to clear your desk every day and continue to work at least till the next pay check.

But somewhere in the corner your passion is pushing them all away and grabbing all of your attention to your passion for writing.

It is like a fight between the real characters and imaginative characters.

In fact, our office is like our old house. We don’t have much choice. All is set and we have to adjust and when the situations become difficult we learn to compromise. This compromise helps us to learn further in life.

Learning is like a parachute, keep it open and keep yourself safe – else you will end up in a nose drive.

To write a good novel we need a story, characters, drama, social networking, inner conflicts and then a good plausible end.

Good thing is that you have everything before you, just no time to be so creative and separate yourself from the humdrum of the office drama.

Your employer and your HR are very kind hearted people who have picked all characters for you, one after another.  No wonder that you are also part of this office drama and you can also see your reflection in any of them.

This helps you to be sure that you are not a zebra in a field of horses. Your office is full of people like:

• Egoist: A person who pretends to be wise and strong but inside is very insecure so his/ her insecurity will always make its first move by throwing blame on another to clear his/her desk. They have natural tendency to bully others.
• Temperamental: These set of people are emotionally unstable, hard to understand however they throw all their emotional garbage on you.
• Know all: They are always there to show their importance, knowledge and skills but they are good at nothing except poking their noise in everything.
• Victim: They generally seem to be sad and need your support and basically they will soon totally depend on you which can make your life difficult. They are also less productive.
• Jealous: They are very common in the office and they keep vomiting poison against others and they mostly work as insiders in the office. They are actually not paid for their productive hours.
• Negative: They are the genuine characters who are sad and have half empty approach toward life which is wonderfully called “Dementor” in the J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series. They really can make anyone sad with their negative thoughts.
• Insecure: They are good for nothing and often people ask themselves why this man is here and what he does. They are there for blame-game. They often blame others for their own mistakes.
• Miss beauty queen: No office can be working properly without them. They are there to keep every employee to reach office on time and keep the atmosphere friendly.

As a writer, you are set on a prefect island that has wonderful shores. Safe your sanity, use your best sense to optimize your creative whim and give the best shot to your writing skills.