Quiz: Which Fictional Queer Writer Are You?

Everybody loves or loves to hate a fictional writer — from Carrie Bradshaw to Khadijah James. But today we are focusing on a particular brand of fictional writer: THE GAY ONES. Whether you are or aren’t a writer in real life, you can take this quiz and learn a lot about yourself, just like how Bette Porter learned a lot about herself when Jenny wrote “Lez Girls.”

Which Fictional Sapphic writer are you?

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Which of these actual memoir titles would be a good title for your own memoir?*

“Unbought and Unbossed”

“This Will Be Funny Later”

“The Liar’s Club”

“A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”

“Running With Scissors”

“Want Me: A Sex Writer’s Journey into the Heart of Desire”

“Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened”

“When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love and Revolution”

“Woman Warrior”

Pick a mug to drink out of while you write your masterpiece:*

Pick a book-to-screen adaptation:*

Pick a writerly job:*

Memoirist

Podcast host

Staff writer for an animated series

Advice columnist

Investigative journalist

Comedy writer

Indie screenwriter

Scribe for a traveling warrior princess

Playwright

Pick an actual writer:*

Lena Waithe

Roxane Gay

Maurice Sendak

Toni Morrison

Dorothy Allison

Jesmyn Ward

María Irene Fornés

Nora Ephron

George R. R. Martin

Pick an inspirational landscape:*

A romantic street in Paris:

Joshua Tree:

The House of the Mouse:

This ultra-luxe hotel pool:

Hollywood:

Ancient Greece:

This roadside art installation in Marfa, Texas:

New York City:

New Orleans marsh:

What would (or does) make you an excellent writer?*

You’re ready to share all of your ugliest secrets with the whole world

You’re able to talk your way into or out of anything

You’ve got your finger on the pulse of your generation

You have a wild imagination

You’ll stop at nothing to get to the truth

You’ve got a lot of family drama to write about and won’t hold anything back

You’re hilarious

You always tell it like it is

You’re deeply in touch with your community and the land

Pick a bookshelf vibe:*

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Pick a vice:*

Melodrama

Gossip

Fan fiction

True crime

Self-righteousness

Oversharing

Not planning ahead

Sword-fighting

Grand romantic gestures

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